From: David Balmain <dbalmain.ml@...>
Date: 2005-11-21T14:30:34+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ SOLUTION] Euchre Hands (#55)

Ryan, how about changing /(J#{u})|(J#{v})/ to /J[#{u}#{v}]/? That'll
save you a couple more characters. :p

On 11/21/05, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>
>