Anagram Descrambler (in Swift!)
I got home late, but I still wanted to make something for NaCreSoMo today. I decided to write an anagram descrambler: give it two words with the same letters and it will map one to the other. Here it is descrambling a timely viral joke:
M E R R I C K G A R L A N D
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
\-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+\| | |
\\| | | | | | | | | ||| | |
|\-+-+\| | | | | | ||| | |
| \-+++-+-+-+-+-+-+++-+\|
| \++\| | | | | ||| |||
| |\++\| | | | ||| |||
| | |\++\| | | ||| |||
| | | |\++\| | ||| |||
/-+-----+-+-+-+/|| | ||| |||
| | | | | | |\-+\||| |||
| | | | | | | \++++-+++\
| | | | | | | /-+/|| ||||
| | | | | | | | | |\\||||
| | /---+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+/|||
| | | /-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+/|
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G E N D R I C K L A M A R R
I wrote it in Swift, which is the language I work on at Apple. Curiously, since I work on the language and its compiler, I don’t get much of a chance to actually write things in Swift besides test cases.
You can check out the whole source code (and try your own anagrams!) on IBM’s Swift Sandbox.