54 lines
1.7 KiB
Lua
54 lines
1.7 KiB
Lua
for i = 1, 1000 do
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-- Open the file for reading
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local file = assert(io.open("strings.txt", "r"))
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-- Initialize a variable to store the sum of scores
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local score = 0
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-- Read each line from the file
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for line in file:lines() do
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-- Split the line in half
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local first_half = line:sub(1, #line / 2)
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local second_half = line:sub(#line / 2 + 1)
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-- Create a table to store the characters in each half
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local first_half_chars = {}
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local second_half_chars = {}
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-- Iterate over each character in each half and store it in the table
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for i = 1, #first_half do
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first_half_chars[first_half:sub(i, i)] = true
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end
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for i = 1, #second_half do
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second_half_chars[second_half:sub(i, i)] = true
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end
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-- Create a table to store the characters that have already been counted
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local counted_chars = {}
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-- Iterate over each character in the first half again
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-- and check if it exists in the second half
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for i = 1, #first_half do
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local char = first_half:sub(i, i)
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if second_half_chars[char] and not counted_chars[char] then
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-- If it does and it hasn't been counted yet,
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-- assign it a score and add it to the sum of scores
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local score_value = 0
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if char:lower() == char then
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-- If the character is lowercase, its score is its ASCII value - 96
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score_value = string.byte(char) - 96
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else
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-- If the character is uppercase, its score is its ASCII value - 64 + 26
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score_value = string.byte(char) - 64 + 26
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end
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score = score + score_value
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-- Add the character to the counted_chars table so it won't be counted again
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counted_chars[char] = true
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end
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end
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end
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-- Print the final sum of scores
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print(score)
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end
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