From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T14:17:42+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ SOLUTION] Euchre Hands (#55)

Thanks to inspiration from reading Zed Lopez's code, I've been able to
cut my golfed solution from 242 bytes to 214. Unfortunately for you
Zed, this now means your is now 108 bytes longer :)

The fixes were:

1. Using s[x,1] instead of s[x..x] to get a single character from a
string. This saved 2 bytes.
2. Calculating the weights INSIDE the sort_by, instead of using a
separate hash. This seems so obvious now I slapped my head when I saw
Zed's code doing this. This saved a whopping 26 bytes.

So, if anyone is interested:

a=$<.read.split("\n");s=%w{d c h
s};c='AKQJT9';t=a.shift;u=(t[0]+32).chr;i=s.index(u);v=s[(i+2)%4];w=[1];i.upto(i+3){|j|w<<s[j%4]};puts
t,a.sort_by{|k|k=~/(J#{u})|(J#{v})/?$1?0:1:w.index(k[1,1])*10+c.index(k[0,1])}

I will be highly impressed if someone can go shorter than this. Also
if anyone wants it I can post a message "decoding" the above.

Ryan