The program I have is really hit and miss, it can run all day without finding a solution, or it can find one in 5 minutes. This solution required only 75k iterations (fast).

Having run the program all day without solutions, I'm wondering if it's been proven that all sentence beginnings have a solution. <p< I'll clean up the code a bit and post it later.

MetaFoo

Maybe the question should be rephrased like this:

#!/usr/bin/perl

   use strict;

   my $str = "Do any Perlmonks know of a sentence made with
              five a's, one b, two c's, four d's, thirty-three e's,
              six f's, two g's, nine h's, ten i's, one j, three k's,
              two l's, three m's, twenty-one n's, sixteen o's,
              two p's, one q, ten r's, twenty-eight s's,
              twenty-five t's, three u's, three v's, ten w's,
              four x's, six y's, and one z?";

   for my $ch ('a'..'z') {
      my $num = (() = $str =~ m{$ch}ig);
      print "$ch $num\n";
   }
[download]

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.