Computer Science Canada :: View topic - removes 4 letter words

var sentence : string

put "This program will remove all 4 letter words from a sentence."

loop
put ""
put "Please enter your sentence:"
get sentence : *

if length (sentence) > 80 then
put "That sentence is too long, please type another sentence."
else
if sentence = "exit" then
exit
end if

sentence := " " + sentence + " "
put sentence

var words : array 1 .. length (sentence) of string
for counter : 1 .. length (sentence)
words (counter) := sentence (counter)
end for

for counter : 2 .. length (sentence)
if counter = 2 and sentence (counter) = " " then
elsif counter = 3 and sentence (counter) = " " then
elsif counter = 4 and sentence (counter) = " " then
elsif counter = 5 and sentence (counter) = " " then
elsif sentence (counter) = " " and sentence (counter - 5) = " " and sentence (counter - 4) not= " " and sentence (counter - 3) not= " " and sentence (counter - 2) not= " " and
sentence (counter - 1) not= " " then
words (counter - 4) := "*"
words (counter - 3) := "*"
words (counter - 2) := "*"
words (counter - 1) := "*"
end if
end for
for counter : 1 .. length (sentence)
put words (counter) ..
end for
end if
end loop
put "You have exited..."

Author:	Cervantes [ Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:00 pm ]
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cool idea, kinda pointless interesting though

Author:	Tony [ Mon Jan 12, 2004 6:18 pm ]
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i remember doing something like that a long while back... I think the story behind the program was to sensor a certain 4 letter word, but since it can easily be modified, they desided to just sensor all 4 letter words Doesn't really solve the problem though

Author:	shorthair [ Fri Jan 23, 2004 10:21 am ]
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Ummmm your proram is good at what it does , , BUt you could probably mod that to censor out an array of words , so that it could actually be used for censor ship , but then you run into words spelt in spaces , G A * , and not even compsci has been able to * that out yet, id like to see a good censorship APP , it would actually be quite useful to me , as i do a bit of editing online

Author:	Tony [ Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:07 pm ]
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well as long as an app is sensoring, there will always be a way around it 5uch 45 1337 5p34k, sensor that heh, the only way I suppose would be to sensor everything that is not part of the dictionary of allowed words

Author:	Maverick [ Fri Jan 23, 2004 3:09 pm ]
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Y35 7H47 15 4 G00D 1D3A!

Author:	Andy [ Fri Jan 23, 2004 5:24 pm ]
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u should've used index

Author:	sport [ Fri Jan 23, 2004 7:13 pm ]
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You will need a file called NAME in order for the program to work.

Author:	jonos [ Mon Jan 26, 2004 10:51 am ]
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You could have just concatenated the different parts together at each new space, and not used an array.