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Muchos idiomas (Posted on 2015-09-01) Difficulty: 3 of 5
"hi scene" is an anagram of Chinese
"laguna rib" is an anagram of Bulgarian

You will be exposed to some more exotic /esoteric languages by decoding the following anagrams:
anti ail
reek echo
reopens at
puna air
gaol tag
near ok
AI march
a sniper

Good luck!

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In alphabetic order by the language:

aimarch   amharic
reekecho   cherokee
reopensat   esperanto
antiail   italian
nearok   korean
punaair   rapanui
gaoltag   tagalog

Persian (from a sniper) is missing, as the Wikipedia list of languages lists Persian itself as a Macrolanguage rather than an Individual language and only Judeo-Persian and Old Persian as individual languages, which is what the program was looking for.

Option Base 1
DefDbl A-Z
Dim crlf$, anagram$(8)

Private Sub Form_Load()
 Form1.Visible = True
 
 Text1.Text = ""
 crlf = Chr$(13) + Chr$(10)

' Open " b5 projects looblelanguages.txt" For Input As #1
' Open " b5 projects looblelanguages2.txt" For Output As #2
' Do
'   prev$ = l$
'   Line Input #1, l$
'   l$ = LTrim(RTrim(LCase(l)))
'   If l = "individual" Then Print #2, prev
' Loop Until EOF(1)
' Close

 anagram$(1) = "antiail"
 anagram$(2) = "reekecho"
 anagram$(3) = "reopensat"
 anagram$(4) = "punaair"
 anagram$(5) = "gaoltag"
 anagram$(6) = "nearok"
 anagram$(7) = "aimarch"
 anagram$(8) = "asniper"
 
 Open "languages2.txt" For Input As #1
  Do
    Line Input #1, l$
    savel$ = l
    ix = InStr(l, "(")
    If ix Then l = Left(l, ix - 1)
    Do
      ix = InStr(l, " ")
      If ix = 0 Then Exit Do
      l = Left(l, ix - 1) + Mid(l, ix + 1)
    Loop
    For i = 1 To 8
      If isAnag(l, anagram(i)) Then
       Text1.Text = Text1.Text & anagram(i) & "   " & savel & crlf
      End If
    Next
  Loop Until EOF(1)
 Close


 Text1.Text = Text1.Text & crlf & " done"
  
End Sub

Function isAnag(a$, b$)
  If Len(a) <> Len(b) Then isAnag = 0: Exit Function
  x$ = a$: y$ = b$
  Do
   done = 1
   For i = 1 To Len(x) - 1
    If Mid(x, i, 1) > Mid(x, i + 1, 1) Then
      h$ = Mid(x, i, 1)
      Mid(x, i, 1) = Mid(x, i + 1, 1)
      Mid(x, i + 1, 1) = h
      done = 0
    End If
   Next
  Loop Until done
  Do
   done = 1
   For i = 1 To Len(y) - 1
    If Mid(y, i, 1) > Mid(y, i + 1, 1) Then
      h$ = Mid(y, i, 1)
      Mid(y, i, 1) = Mid(y, i + 1, 1)
      Mid(y, i + 1, 1) = h
      done = 0
    End If
   Next
  Loop Until done
  If x = y Then isAnag = 1 Else isAnag = 0
End Function

The commented out portion of the program was executed only once to create the file that was easier to use in finding the matches, and then it was commented out during development of the search.

Also discovered that the Array method of initializing arrays apparently does not work for strings in VB 5.

Edited on September 1, 2015, 4:46 pm
  Posted by Charlie on 2015-09-01 16:09:14

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