Skip to Content.
Sympa Menu

internetworkers - Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness

internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org

Subject: Internetworkers: http://www.ibiblio.org/internetworkers/

List archive

Chronological Thread  
  • From: Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] Tuesday Morning Randomness
  • Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 12:28:34 -0500

on Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:01:44PM -0500, Chris Hedemark wrote:
> On Tuesday, November 12, 2002, at 11:08 AM, Dallas Smith wrote:
>
> > Anyone know what the longest word in the dictionary is that you can
> > spell only using the top line of your keyboard - QWERTYUIOP - using
> > only those letters. :) A 10-letter word is the best I can get.
>
> I can't get past ten either.

Perl is your friend.

perl -ne 'chomp;if(/^[qwertyuiop]+$/i) { printf("%02d %s\n", length($_), $_);
}' < /usr/share/dict/words | sort

11 proprietory
11 proterotype
11 rupturewort

Hey, you didn't specify which dictionary... :)

--
hesketh.com/inc. v: (919) 834-2552 f: (919) 834-2554 w: http://hesketh.com
The average person needs trepanation like he needs a hole in the head. -ca





Archive powered by MHonArc 2.6.24.

Top of Page