From: Yoan Blanc <greut.lists@...>
Date: 2008-01-21T04:52:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Fwd: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission

James Gray wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
>
>> From: Yoan Blanc <yoan@dosimple.ch>
>> Date: January 18, 2008 1:18:37 PM CST
>> To: submission@rubyquiz.com
>> Subject: Please Forward: Ruby Quiz Submission
>>
>> thanks.
>> #!/usr/bin/ruby
>> # author: Yoan Blanc <yoan at dosimple.ch>
>> # revision: 20080118
>>
>> text = STDIN.read
>>
>> (text.length/2).downto 1 do |l|
>>     match = Regexp.new("(.{#{l}})\\1").match(text)
while fail with text longer than (1 << 15)-1 which is the maximum string
a quantifier can handle.
>>     if match
>>         puts text[match.offset(1)[0]..(match.offset(1)[1]-1)]
>>         break
>>     end
>> end
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