an interesting exercise by Accelerated C++

Exercise 5.10 from Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig

Palindromes are words that are spelled the same right to left as left
to right. Write a program to find all the palindromes in a dictionary.
Next, find the longest palindrome.

How do u think you can supply a dictionary to a program? The examples
are real world problems I have to accept :( but they must be in the
context of a newcomer can cope and learn without discourage. This is my
humble idea.

Any comments...

Thx.

re: an interesting exercise by Accelerated C++

utab wrote:
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> Exercise 5.10 from Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig
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> Palindromes are words that are spelled the same right to left as left
> to right. Write a program to find all the palindromes in a dictionary.
> Next, find the longest palindrome.
>
> How do u think you can supply a dictionary to a program?[/color]

The easiest would be just a plain simple text file.

re: an interesting exercise by Accelerated C++

utab wrote:[color=blue]
> Exercise 5.10 from Accelerated C++ by Andrew Koenig[/color]
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> How do u think you can supply a dictionary to a program?[/color]

Since it is very likely that Andrew Koenig had some UNIX exposure
I would guess that he considers the presence of /usr/dict/words
to be a given - as would I (just to learn that it is called
/usr/share/dict/words on the Linux system I'm using...).
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> The examples
> are real world problems I have to accept :( but they must be in the
> context of a newcomer can cope and learn without discourage. This
> is my humble idea.
>
> Any comments...[/color]

I assume your problem is the absence of a dictionary file: just
get one or create one to test with. Reading a file containing
words shouldn't be a problem...
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re: an interesting exercise by Accelerated C++

Thanks,

I am also using Linux(newbie on that also)

So I can try on that file if I have problems I will drop by again