From 8a3470439b6b49421b2d8ddd4d7bcfb98f4e6434 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Schierboom Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 11:47:35 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Sync the `anagram` exercise's docs with the latest data. --- exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md | 6 +++--- exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/introduction.md | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/introduction.md diff --git a/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md b/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md index 7d1c8283e..a7298485b 100644 --- a/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md +++ b/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@ # Instructions -An anagram is a rearrangement of letters to form a new word: for example `"owns"` is an anagram of `"snow"`. -A word is not its own anagram: for example, `"stop"` is not an anagram of `"stop"`. +Your task is to, given a target word and a set of candidate words, to find the subset of the candidates that are anagrams of the target. -Given a target word and a set of candidate words, this exercise requests the anagram set: the subset of the candidates that are anagrams of the target. +An anagram is a rearrangement of letters to form a new word: for example `"owns"` is an anagram of `"snow"`. +A word is _not_ its own anagram: for example, `"stop"` is not an anagram of `"stop"`. The target and candidates are words of one or more ASCII alphabetic characters (`A`-`Z` and `a`-`z`). Lowercase and uppercase characters are equivalent: for example, `"PoTS"` is an anagram of `"sTOp"`, but `StoP` is not an anagram of `sTOp`. diff --git a/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/introduction.md b/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/introduction.md new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1acbdf00b --- /dev/null +++ b/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/introduction.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Introduction + +At a garage sale, you find a lovely vintage typewriter at a bargain price! +Excitedly, you rush home, insert a sheet of paper, and start typing away. +However, your excitement wanes when you examine the output: all words are garbled! +For example, it prints "stop" instead of "post" and "least" instead of "stale." +Carefully, you try again, but now it prints "spot" and "slate." +After some experimentation, you find there is a random delay before each letter is printed, which messes up the order. +You now understand why they sold it for so little money! + +You realize this quirk allows you to generate anagrams, which are words formed by rearranging the letters of another word. +Pleased with your finding, you spend the rest of the day generating hundreds of anagrams.