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Die Word Search!

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Scenario: You are given a stupid word search in school. Yuck, manual labor\busy work as homework! What's a guy to do? Dutifully find random words in a huge block? Forget that! So I write a little program that finds them for me. :mrgreen:

Sure, I could have finished the word search manually on my own in about the same amount of time and probably faster... But in doing it this way I learned and gained experience.

Now all I had to do was type up the block.
puzzle.txt wrote:MHDERBESSERGORPSKROW
COISNIKPOHYTIRUCESRT
HERADJUSTMENTHAWLIEY
AZEANATIEGNAHCXEGONT
TICATWENTIETHLAHOOVC
SLTRRORUGINDUSTRIALA
NAROEGRNOITAVRESNOCR
ANENCEDILLUHLLEDROCE
IOLAOAMEUNODOMENTDFN
RIIENIRPUMPTOOMSEESG
ATELAEDWENNCAAVIDTEA
TAFESFRLANNALPCEESBW
INROTOOSRIRGSRVERALT
NYTIRAPEMORERIGENNSR
ACYCNIVGNERILCTKIIAE
MNABUDNGNRIOCEHRTULD
UTAOROIGLASSOOFAAURL
HNANLANVLVAELSMELPLU
KEFUBIIYIVIIEGERIGIO
LAASDCSNEDDPASSVCLUB
YUIATKNCTAURERSREIET
TTRRIEOLYRPAIREEELSR
RTYMOSSILAUBLOKRNNTL
EHNYNLMFEAGSUIEIHNWU
BOAOCHOFEYHATRSONLEO
IRTNHOHOECNANIFMDSPT
LIIAAMTROBALLANOITAN
Then type up the words to find.
words.txt wrote:HOOVER
INCOME
MORATORIUM
BOULDER
ROOSEVELT
BANKHOLIDAY
CORDELLHULL
ELEANOR
LONG
PARITY
ALGREB
AARON
FINANCE
CONSERVATION
TENNESSEE
GLASS
EXCHANGE
NATIONALLABOR
SECURITY
BONUSARMY
DIRECTRELIEF
NEWDEAL
HOMELOADBANK
TWENTIETH
NATIONALIZE
BIPARTISAN
ICKES
LIBERTY
TRADING
CLIFFORDODETS
PUMP
SMOOT
HUMANITARIAN
BRAINTRUST
INDIVIDUALISM
PRAGMATIST
CHATS
PERKINS
HOPKINS
ADJUSTMENT
WAGNERACT
WRIGHT
THOMSON
PRICE
RELIEF
OWNERS
INDUSTRIAL
FAIR
WORKSPROGRESS
Run the program and BAM!!!

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It's a thing of beauty! It did, however, alert me that it couldn't find 1 word. Most likely because I made a typo in the huge block. But still!
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that's pretty awesome
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Huzzah! No one can say that writing that program was a waste of time now because it has started to pay for itself! We got another word search in US history... And with only about 5 min of typing the text block, the puzzle was totally solved! Woot!
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Good job Henry. I hate/love word searches.

I love then just as busy work during class, but when we have to finish them as homework I hate them.
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Post by spideyspiderman2000 »

God, I hate school word searches.

Put that up for download...

I'll give you a nickel...
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A nickle? BAH! It's worth more cents than that!
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I'll be yer best friend EVAR if you put it up fer download.
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Post by Falco Girgis »

Holy crap, JSL. You're a little bitch!

That's gotta be the most badass little hackery I've ever seen!

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