Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge

Re:Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge by triangleman83 on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:31PM (#1773016)

Wow the G. Address was horribly mutilated.

Four score and seven years ago our faathers brought forth on this containent a new nation conceived inz Liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal Now we are engaged in a greaht civil war testing whether that naption or any nartion so conceived and so dedicated can long endure We are qmet on a great battlefiemld of tzhat war

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Re:Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge by rwalker on Friday October 08, 2010 @03:36PM (#1773038)

This was intentional - we had to tie break the longest palindrome and we didn't want a quick diff to be able to see what we changed.

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Re:Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge by Cushman on Friday October 08, 2010 @08:13PM (#1773943)

Never mind that finding the actual text, removing the spaces and caps, and running diff would probably take longer than coding and executing a brute force algorithm :P

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Re:Can you solve it? The Greplin programming challenge by Natsu on Saturday October 09, 2010 @01:39AM (#1774447)

Why not ask for the rightmost palindrome, then? Just to make it a tiny bit more complex (not that it's very hard to iterate backwards)?

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