Challenge '3280'

[newbsauce]

Challenge '3280' [Coding]

What's the most common 9-letter word in RFC 3280?


You just..have to know it? >.>; I fail.

[MerickOWA]

I wrote a program to read the RFC 3280 out of a text file and count the number of times each 9-letter word appears.

I suppose you could guess

[newbsauce]

I wrote a program to read the RFC 3280 out of a text file and count the number of times each 9-letter word appears.

I suppose you could guess

oh. lol XD im so noobish. thanks.

[Kuzmin]

You could also use a word frequency calculator as the one used in some other challenge, and then look through the most popular words, should be easier than writing programs specifically for these challenges

[canine]

You could also a shell script.

Something along the lines of:

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wget "http://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3280.txt" -O - | <commands go here> |less

I snipped the relevant code, but it's just standard GNU tool commands. Filter out the punctuation and whitespace, filter for the appropriate word length, etc.

If you're doing any sort of processing of data, ordinary GNU tools or things like perl and sed are your friends.

[executioner]

i tried to analyze it using an online service, but the 9-letter word occuring most often is not the answer... would be "standards"

[the_impaler]

Usually, RFCs have list of authors at the beginning with their addresses.
You could simply ask one of the authors.

[Atsutane]

Usually, RFCs have list of authors at the beginning with their addresses.
You could simply ask one of the authors.

They'd sure be happy to be asked that question every few days ...

executioner, Well I solved that challenge just yesterday and the most used 9-letter word in fact is the answer.

[Minor]

Heh, I guess it from first try!

LOL!

[1nFinity865]

Uhhh, maebe i shouldnt be doing this in java...
i added " **END** " to the end of the file and started writing my java app:

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import java.io.*;
public class RFC
{
    public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
    {
        BufferedReader br = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("rfc.txt"));
        String line = br.readLine();
        StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer();
        while(line != "**END**")
        {
            sb.append(line);
            line = br.readLine();
        }
    }
}

well... this is what happens...

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java.lang.OutOfMemoryError

... oops

[Zeta]

If all else fails, read the manual.

I would advise you to do some reading, covering equality of strings in java and the behavior of readLine when the end of stream is reached.

[1nFinity865]

ok, thanks - got it to work eventually!

to those who can't get the answer.. i'll give you a hint: It has NINE LETTERS!!!!!

[bookbook0089]

thanks pal...this is useful

[Masti6]

You can use an online word counter as well.