1996 ACM South Central Region
Programming Contest
Problem #4: Excuses, Excuses!
Source File: excuses.cc
Judge Ito is having a problem with people subpoenaed for jury duty
giving rather lame excuses in order to avoid serving. In order to
reduce the amount of time required listening to goofy excuses, Judge Ito
has asked that you write a program that will search for a list of
keywords in a list of excuses identifying lame excuses. Keywords can be
matched in an excuse regardless of case.
Input
Input to your program will consist of multiple sets of data. Line 1 of
each set will contain exactly two integers. The first number (1 <= K <=
20) defines the number of keywords to be used in the search. The second
number (1 <= E <= 20) defines the number of excuses in the set to be
searched. Lines 2 through K+1 each contain exactly one keyword. Lines
K+2 through K+1+E each contain exactly one excuse. All keywords in the
keyword list will contain only contiguous lower case alphabetic
characters of length L (1 <= L <= 20) and will occupy columns 1 through
L in the input line. All excuses can contain any upper or lower case
alphanumeric character, a space, or any of the following punctuation
marks [".,!?] not including the square brackets and will not exceed 70
characters in length. Excuses will contain at least 1 non-space
character.
Output
For each input set, you are to print the worst excuse(s) from the list.
The worst excuse(s) is/are defined as the excuse(s) which contains the
largest number of incidences of keywords. If a keyword occurs more than
once in an excuse, each occurrence is considered a separate incidence.
A keyword "occurs" in an excuse if and only if it exists in the string
in contiguous form and is delimited by the beginning or end of the line
or any non-alphabetic character or a space.
For each set of input, you are to print a single line with the number of
the set immediately after the string "Excuse Set #". (See the Sample
Output). The following line(s) is/are to contain the worst excuse(s):
one per line exactly as read in. If there is more than one worst
excuse, print them in any order they appeared in the input. After each
set of output, you should print a blank line.
Sample Input
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5 3
dog
ate
homework
canary
died
My dog ate my homework.
Can you believe my dog died after eating my canary... AND MY HOMEWORK?
This excuse is so good that it contain 0 keywords.
6 5
superhighway
crazy
thermonuclear
bedroom
war
building
I am having a superhighway built in my bedroom.
I am actually crazy.
1234567890.....,,,,,0987654321?????!!!!!!
There was a thermonuclear war!
I ate my dog, my canary, and my homework ... note outdated keywords?
14 10
dog
ate
homework
canary
died
superhighway
crazy
thermonuclear
bedroom
war
building
i
reststop
guilty
My dog ate my homework.
Can you believe my dog died after eating my canary... AND MY HOMEWORK?
This excuse is so good that it contain 0 keywords.
I am having a superhighway built in my bedroom.
There was a thermonuclear war!
I ate my dog, my canary, and my homework ... note outdated keywords?
I think he is#guilty.
guiltyirest stopatehomeworkdogatehomeworkcanarydogbedroomatedogdog.
Guilty#reststop ate#superhighway#bedroom#thermonuclear@guilty!
rest stop rest stop rest stop rest stop rest stop rest stop rest stop
Sample Output
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Excuse Set #1
Can you believe my dog died after eating my canary... AND MY HOMEWORK?
Excuse Set #2
I am having a superhighway built in my bedroom.
There was a thermonuclear war!
Excuse Set #3
Guilty#reststop ate#superhighway#bedroom#thermonuclear@guilty!