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authorAbigail <abigail@abigail.be>2021-05-03 18:49:18 +0200
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Lua solution for week 111, part 2
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@@ -52,6 +52,7 @@ to standard output. In case of ties, we print the first one found.
### Solutions
* [GNU AWK](awk/ch-2.gawk)
* [C](c/ch-2.c)
+* [Lua](lua/ch-2.lua)
* [Perl](perl/ch-2.pl)
### Blog
diff --git a/challenge-111/abigail/lua/ch-2.lua b/challenge-111/abigail/lua/ch-2.lua
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+#!/opt/local/bin/lua
+
+--
+-- See ../README.md
+--
+
+--
+-- Run as: lua ch-2.lua < input-file
+--
+
+local longest = ""
+
+for line in io . lines () do
+ --
+ -- Find words with their letters in lexical order, and which are
+ -- longer than the longest found so far.
+ --
+ if line : lower ()
+ : find ("^a*b*c*d*e*f*g*i*j*k*l*m*n*o*p*q*r*s*t*u*v*w*x*y*z*$")
+ and line : len () > longest : len ()
+ then longest = line
+ end
+end
+
+print (longest)