[Tutor] Find all strings that....

[Alexander Etter]

On Nov 10, 2011, at 13:52, Francesco Loffredo <fal at libero.it> wrote:

> Alexander Etter wrote:
>> 
>> Hi. My friend gave me a good wake up exercise which I do not want you to solve for me: find all strings which can be converted to alpha with at most two operations, where alpha is some string constant, and a substring of at least length three of alpha must be in the answers.
> I'd like to try this exercise too; would you mind defining "operations" more specifically, please?
> Given a sufficiently broad meaning of "operations" (e.g. operation = any function call)
> then any word can be converted into any given word with at most ONE operation.
Consider an operation not as a function. A function could easily contain more than two operations. An operation would remove two letters. An operation would add one letter. Etc. 
Alexander
> 
>> So, my question is: is there a library or .txt dictionary ( not the data type, rather the merriam webster kind ) I can use to test my script on? I'd imagine this library/dictionary to contain thousands of words. Not random words.
> http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~hfugal/cs167/labs/words.txt
>> Thanks for reading,
>> Alexander
> More thanks for writing!
> Francesco
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