MShareef
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Oct 13, 2001, 12:29 PM
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Pig Latin
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I am trying to write a program that will convert an entered string/word into its pig latin form.
The rules of pig latin:
If the word starts with a vowel
than add way to the end
Otherwise everything from the beginning of the word upto (but not including) the first vowel(including 'y') is removed and added on to the end + "ay"
examples:
apple --> appleway
yellow --> ellowyay
bye --> yebay
* This is actually a pretty easy project, but there is one perk, I am trying to do this in as little code as possible(i.e. the number of characters in the perl script must be at a minimum)
Here is what I have so far
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while(<>) {
chomp;
if(/^[aeiou]/i){print"$_"."way\n"}
elsif(/^(?:(.+?)([aeiouy]))/i){print"$2$'$1ay\n"}
}
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Please reply if you know a way to shorten my code.
Thanks!!!!
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