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Posted by poster3814 on May 20, 2007, 6:04 pm
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> poster3814 wrote:
>
>> Sebastian G. wrote:
>>> Walter Roberson wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>> As you've already been told: Such a program doesn't exist, because
>>>>> it's absolutely trivial. You can even implement it with a one-line
>>>>> shell script on almost any platform.
>>>> Then you won't mind sharing your one-line shell script with poster3814.
>>> May I presume Windows cmd Shell?
>>>
>>> (for /f "delims=" %i in (dictionary.txt) do \
>>> for /f "delims=" %j in (dictionary.txt) do \
>>> for /f "delims=" %k in (dictionary.txt) do echo %i%j%k) >output.txt
>>>
>>> Or Bash?
>>>
>>> (for $i in [dictionary.txt]; do; \
>>> for $j in [dictionary.txt]; do; \
>>> for $k in [dictionary.txt]; do; echo -n $i$j$k; end; end; end;)
>>> >output.txt
>>>
>>> Now, need even more evidence that this is totally trivial?
>>
>> For what it's worth, this didn't work for me, at least not yet; I'm
>> not very familiar with programming with the Windows cmd shell,
>
>
> Doesn't matter much, since the "help" command exists.
>
> Anyway, any programming language does the job. Even non-Turing-complete
> ones like "LOOP".
>
>> Anyway, again for what it's worth, when I first ran this, I was told:
>>
>> "'\' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable
>> program or batch file"
>>
>> so I removed the two backslashes and tried again. The output file only
>> contained one result: a concatenation of "%i," "%j," the last word in
>> dictionary.txt, and a right parenthesis. For example:
>>
>> %i%j[lastword])
>
>
> Maybe you should turn off your computer and switch over to a Gameboy[tm]
> if you don't even know that '\' is a common annotation for "I had to
> insert a line break here to not mess up the formatting. You should
> remove it."
>
> You would you please all the three loops into one line that they're
> enclosed and not compounded?
Well, as I said:
"The programming I have done was a while ago, so I'm rusty. I apologize,
but that's one of the reasons I was wondering if this had already been
done by other people and available on the Internet."
Also, when I was doing some programming back then, I had no need to
share the code with others in such a way that I needed to add a
backslash to indicate that "I had to insert a line break here to not
mess up the formatting. You should remove it."
I don't feel like having to figure this out myself - at least not at
this point in time - especially if someone else had already done it and
made it easily available. Imagine if someone had answered, "Yes. Try out
[this web site] or [that web site] or said, "Yes, [this program] or
[that program] can do what you're looking for." What a waste it would be
for me to "re-invent the wheel," so to speak.
So, I figured, "No harm in asking." I've got plenty of other things I
should be spending my time and effort on instead.
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