From: Chris Shea <chris@...>
Date: 2008-01-06T10:34:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Chain, Chain, Chain (was Re: zed shaw zed shaw zed shaw)

On Jan 5, 2008 6:14 PM, Jeremy Henty <onepoint@starurchin.org> wrote:
> [some sadly uncited person wrote]
>
> >> > Okay, I've been playing with doing this programatically.  I'm not
> >> > yet convinced that it's bug free, but I've found some rather long
> >> > movie title chains using the non-imdb list posted earlier:
>
> I'm surprised  no-one's found a loop  yet.  Is there  one?  What's the
> shortest?

The shortest is easy:

File.readlines('MOVIES.LST').find_all {|line| line.split.first ==
line.split.last}
["\n", "AREMEMBER\n", "AUTHOR AUTHOR\n", "BEST OF THE BEST\n",
"BREAKER BREAKER\n", "BUDDY BUDDY\n", "CHUD II BUD THE CHUD\n",
"CORRINA CORRINA\n", "DEATH WISH V THE FACE OF DEATH\n", "DIE MOMMIE
DIE\n", "DIE MONSTER DIE\n", "DREAM A LITTLE DREAM\n", "EAST IS
EAST\n", "EYE FOR AN EYE\n", "GIRLS GIRLS GIRLS\n", "GIRLS WILL BE
GIRLS\n", "HIGH SCHOOL HIGH\n", "JULIA AND JULIA\n", "JUNGLE 2
JUNGLE\n", "KRAMER VS KRAMER\n", "LADYBIRD LADYBIRD\n", "LIAR LIAR\n",
"MELINDA AND MELINDA\n", "MOMENT BY MOMENT\n", "MURDER AND MURDER\n",
"NIAGARA NIAGARA\n", "NIGHTBREED \n", "SCREAM BLACULA SCREAM\n",
"SISTER MY SISTER\n", "SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY\n", "THEGUEST\n", "THEY
SHOOT HORSES DONT THEY\n", "TIME AFTER TIME\n", "TORA TORA TORA\n",
"WRONGSTAND\n", "YI YI\n", "YOU CANT TAKE IT WITH YOU\n"]