GNU AWK solution for week 4, part 2

3 files changed, 60 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/challenge-004/abigail/README.md b/challenge-004/abigail/README.md
index 500d34b5ea..951045328c 100644
--- a/challenge-004/abigail/README.md
+++ b/challenge-004/abigail/README.md
@@ -40,5 +40,10 @@ each letter only once (though there can be duplicates and you can
 use each of them once), you don't have to use all the letters.
 (Disclaimer: The challenge was proposed by Scimon Proctor)
 
+### Notes
+We will assume the word list is passed in with a '-f' parameter.
+The sets of letters are read from standard input.
+
 ### Solutions
+* [GNU AWK](awk/ch-2.gawk)
 * [Perl](perl/ch-2.pl)
diff --git a/challenge-004/abigail/awk/ch-2.gawk b/challenge-004/abigail/awk/ch-2.gawk
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..11c73f7913
--- /dev/null
+++ b/challenge-004/abigail/awk/ch-2.gawk
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+#!/opt/local/bin/gawk
+
+#
+# See ../README.md
+#
+
+#
+# Run as: awk -f ch-2.gawk < input-file
+#
+
+
+BEGIN {
+    #
+    # Parse command line
+    #
+    for (i = 1; i < ARGC; i ++) {
+        if (ARGV [i] == "-f") {
+            filename = ARGV [i + 1]
+        }
+    }
+    ARGC = 0
+
+    #
+    # Read in the words
+    #
+    i = 1
+    while ((getline word < filename) > 0) {
+        words [i ++] = word
+    }
+
+    #
+    # So we do lower case matching. Note that this is a GNU AWK extension
+    #
+    IGNORECASE = 1
+}
+
+
+{
+    #
+    # Split each line into characters. Then, for each word in
+    # the word list, remove each of the characters from the split
+    # line. If we end up with an empty string, we have a winner.
+    #
+    split ($0, chars, "")
+    for (i = 1; i <= length (words); i ++) {
+        copy = words [i]
+        for (j = 1; j <= length (chars); j ++) {
+            sub (chars [j], "", copy)
+        }
+        if (length (copy) == 0) {
+            print words [i]
+        }
+    }
+}
diff --git a/challenge-004/abigail/t/ctest.ini b/challenge-004/abigail/t/ctest.ini
index 558a282cc3..6675a345b1 100644
--- a/challenge-004/abigail/t/ctest.ini
+++ b/challenge-004/abigail/t/ctest.ini
@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
 [names]

 1-1  = Pi, 3242 digits

 2-1  = Small wordlist

+2-2  = Large wordlist

 

 [challenges/1]

 extra_tests = Check_Program_Size

 

-

 [2-1]

 args = -f t/words.txt