Re: Translation Project

Thank you very much Regis, Justin, and Julian! I am grateful that you 
have taken the time to not just respond, but to make this educational as 
well, that is exactly what I was looking for.

Regis:

I have tested your code on codeacademy labs and it does work on 1.8.3, 
but seems to have a problem with not running multiple times, I believe 
that is an issue with their site though. When running, it works very 
smoothly!

Recurring issue with it: It cannot accept apostrophe's. It will lock up 
the site if an apostrophe is anywhere in the text. Which I will work on 
resolving.

Justin:

Up until my conversation with Regis yesterday, I had no coding down, 
just the concept. Knowing that there would be multiple possible 
approaches, I was wanting to see at least one possible way that someone 
knew how to do it, and then assess, reconfigure, rebuild, etc... 
whatever needed to be done.

My goal is to create an encrypter that mimics DNA sequencing which only 
uses four letters: A, T, G, C. Wherein there is a rule they must follow, 
A always pairs with T, and C always pairs with G.

So this encrypter would take text, reassign it's values to one of the 
four letters (this assigning could then be changed in a whim if anyone 
ever figured it out), and then spit out the result.

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The end product would then be to have a way of re-combining everything 
on the receiving end. Which is the hard part. I want it to take the 
code, assess the different possible letters, for instance, "You" 
translated in the example above WOULD be "DCD", which then re-translated 
back COULD be any combination of [S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z] [M,N,O,P,Q,R] 
[S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z]. It would need to compare the possible combinations to 
a dictionary, which would be ranked on the most probable words, and then 
spit out the most accurate answer.

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So, there is still a lot of work to do. I just wanted a good footing to 
base it on. So that's where I'm at now.

Julian:

Thank you very much for your solution, but also for the detailed 
explanation and breakdown! I have learned about a lot of the different 
components you mentioned through Code Academy, but also a lot of them I 
either haven't gotten to, or they don't teach it. So THANK YOU!

I'm going to read through everything bit by bit and see if I can get it 
to run on code academy labs. Then play with it as need be.

Here are the small changes I have made to Regis' solution so far (mostly 
spacing and rewording of the request for input):

$h={
 "A" => %w{A B C D E F},
 "T" => %w{G H I J K L},
 "G" => %w{M N O P Q R},
 "C" => %w{S T U V W X Y Z}
}
$reverseh= $h.inject({}) { |h,(k,a)| a.each {|l| h[l]=k } ; h }

def conv(letter) $reverseh[letter] || letter end


print "DNAS: Sequencing Open... Input? "
puts " "
while (word=$stdin.gets).size>1
 puts word.chomp.upcase.split(//).map { |l| conv(l) }.join("")
 puts " "
 print "DNAS: Additional Input? "
 puts " "
end


Again, thank you very much everybody! I don't want anyone to think that 
I am asking you to do the work for me. I want to learn all of this and 
will do it all myself if it comes to it, it just helps to have solid 
grounding to work with. Not to mention, I will give credit on everyone's 
contributions at the end of this all and in the final product, unless 
they ask me not to. I'm not here to steal work. :)

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