From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-04-23T20:48:04+09:00
Subject: Fwd: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission

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> From: "Stuart Holden" <Stuart.Holden@barings.com>
> Date: April 23, 2007 4:55:28 AM CDT
> To: <submission@rubyquiz.com>
> Subject: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission
>
> #  [RubyQuiz:121 - MorseCode]
>
> #
>
> #  Recursive solution with a little bit of caching...
>
>
> require 'memoize'
>
> include Memoize
>
> ENCODINGS = {
>
>   'A' => '.-',  'B' => '-...',  'C' => '-.-.',  'D' => '-..',  'E'  
> => '.',
>
>   'F' => '..-.',  'G' => '--.',  'H' => '....',  'I' => '..',  'J'  
> => '.---',
>
>   'K' => '-.-',  'L' => '.-..',  'M' => '--',  'N' => '-.',  'O' =>  
> '---',
>
>   'P' => '.--.',  'Q' => '--.-',  'R' => '.-.',  'S' => '...',  'T'  
> => '-',
>
>   'U' => '..-',  'V' => '...-',  'W' => '.--',  'X' => '-..-',  'Y'  
> => '-.--',
>
>   'Z' => '--..'
>
> }
>
> class String
>
>   def starts_with? s
>
>     return self[0...s.length] == s
>
>   end
>
> end
>
>
> def next_steps(code)
>
>   #-- Find eligible steps, return the decoded character and the  
> remaining morse
>
>   ENCODINGS.select { |alpha_char, morse_char| code.starts_with? 
> (morse_char) }.map do | (alpha_char, morse_char) |
>
>     [alpha_char, code.sub(morse_char, "")]
>
>   end
>
> end
>
> def decodings(code)
>
>   retval = []
>
>
>   #-- Base: nothing to decode -> return empty string
>
>   if (code == "")
>
>     retval << ""
>
>   else
>
>     #-- Step: Process each possible char-tail tuple, recurse on the  
> tail to construct all possible words...
>
>     next_steps(code).each do |head, tail|
>
>       decodings(tail).each do |plaintext|
>
>         retval << (head + plaintext)
>
>       end
>
>     end
>
>   end
>
>   retval
>
> end
>
> memoize(:next_steps, 'ns.dat') #-- Performance boost when  
> repeatedly checking the same tails.
>
> puts "Please enter some morse code... "
>
> input=gets.chomp
>
> decodings(input).sort.each do |word|
>
>   breakdown = word.split("").map {|alpha_char| ENCODINGS 
> [alpha_char] }.join("|")
>
>   puts "#{word} -> #{breakdown}"
>
> end
>
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