Actionscript:
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var target:Array = ("actionsnippet").split("");
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var leng:int=target.length;
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var iterations:int = 0;
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var alphabet:Array = ("abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz").split("");
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var search:Array = randomString();
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var indices:Array = new Array();
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for (var i:int = 0; i<leng; i++) indices.push(i);
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addEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onLoop);
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function onLoop(evt:Event):void {
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for (var i:int = 0; i<10; i++){
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if (indices.length> 0){
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var ii:int = int(Math.random()*indices.length);
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var index:int = indices[ii];
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search[index] = randomChar();
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if (search[index] == target[index]){
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indices.splice(ii,1);
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}
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trace(search);
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iterations++;
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}else{
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trace("found after "+iterations+" iterations");
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removeEventListener(Event.ENTER_FRAME, onLoop);
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break;
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}
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}
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}
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function randomChar():String { return alphabet[int(Math.random()*alphabet.length)]; };
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function randomString():Array {
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var str:Array = new Array();
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for (var i:int = 0; i<leng; i++) {
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str.push(randomChar());
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}
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return str;
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}
A little random hill climbing...
Here are the last few iterations... lowest number of iterations I noticed was round 250...
....
j,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
y,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
s,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
w,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
e,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
j,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
z,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
l,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
f,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
a,c,t,i,o,n,s,n,i,p,p,e,t
found after 361 iterations
5 Comments
This is great! It really shows me where to expand my blog. I think that sometime in the future I might try to write a book to go along with my blog, but we will see…Good post with useful tips and ideas
thanks… glad you like the site.
This is great! Now I want to see your ways for us readers to become more involved! Expect an email later today.
I was thinking about about having a “submit snippet” page… if I think the snippet is good I would post it with full credit….. something about that idea doesn’t seem fully realized.
Another idea was to have a page that people could just freely post code snippets of any length… I think I might like that one better…
Do you have something specific in mind?
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