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> i want to write a function which will sort the sentence by the length of
> each word in the sentece, short length first.please help.
Hi Nywbon,
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Finally, to get back to your question:
> i want to write a function which will sort the sentence by the length of
> each word in the sentece, short length first.please help.
This looks very much like a homework question. We can not help you much
with this. The only thing we can really do is try to guide you
indirectly.
Here are a few things you can do:
1. Write some concrete test examples of the problem statement and
what you'd like to get out of it.
2. Show us some of the code that you've written so far, so we can at
least point out areas of improvement.
For point one, let's take a totally different problem and demonstrate.
Let's say we wanted to write a function to turn a number from 0-9 to a
string of the Esperanto rendition.
If we wanted to write example cases, we'd imagine what calling this
function for interesting inputs would look like. For example:
translate(0) --> "nul"
translate(1) --> "unu"
translate(2) --> "du"
...
translate(9) --> "nau"
I use the arrow notation '-->' as an ad-hoc way of saying "I expect to get
this value on the right hand side if everything is going well with my
function".
Can you write examples of your own for your problem?
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