#! perl -slw use strict; sub uniq { my %x; @x{@_} = (); keys %x } my $len = shift @ARGV; my $re ; my $re_ex; my $cap = 1; my $cap_ex = 1; my $hints_uniq; for my $i ( 0 .. $#ARGV ) { my( $word, $common ) = split ':', $ARGV[ $i ]; my $uniq = join'', uniq( split '', $word ); $hints_uniq .= $uniq; if( $common <= length $word ) { $re_ex .= "\n\t(?= (?: .*? (?: [^$uniq] | (?: ([$uniq])(?= .* \\" . $cap_ex++ . ") ) ) ){" . ( $len - $common ) . "} )" } if( $common >= 2 ) { $re .= "\n\t(?=.*?([$word]).*?(?!\\$cap)"; if( $common > 2 ) { my $base = $cap; for my $n ( 1 .. $common-2 ) { $re .= "([$word]).*?(?!" . join('|', map{ '\\' . $_ } $base .. ++$cap ) . ")"; } } $cap++; $re .= "[$word])"; } elsif( $common == 1 ) { $re .= "\n\t(?=.*[$word].*)" } } $hints_uniq = join '', uniq split'', $hints_uniq; my $re_covered = qr[^[$hints_uniq]+$]; $re = qr[^$re]x; $re_ex = qr[$re_ex]x; my %w; open W, '<', 'words' or die $!; m[^[a-z]+$] and push @{ $w{ length() } }, $_ while chomp( $_ = ||'' ); close W; my @m = grep{ $_ =~ $re_covered and $_ =~ $re_ex and $_ =~ $re } @{ $w{ $len } }; print ~~@m; print for @m;