Student Originated Software 1997-1998
Winter Quarter

A Software Engineering Course at
The Evergreen State College


UNIX Potluck

Assignment #4
Due February 5th


Basic

  1. (2 points) Factorial. Write a Perl script that gets an integer (say, N) from the user (either on command line or after being asked for it) and returns 1!, 2!, etc. up until N!, each on its own line. Use at least one Perl subroutine. Remember that 1! = 1, 2! = 2 x 1! (or 2), 3! = 3 x 2! (or 6), etc.

  2. (2) Sort Some Text. Write a perl script that opens and reads a text file then sorts it and prints the results to the screen. It would be nice to implement different types of sorting such as ignoring case (lower case vs. upper case) or numeric sorting in addition to standard sorting.

  3. (2) Deal out cards. This perl script will deal out cards from the type of file discussed earlier (52 lines, etc.). It will take two arguments: number of players and how many cards each should get. It should do error checking on input values! And -- It shouldn't cheat!


Super User

  1. (3) Shuffle Cards. using a 52 line input file where each line represents a playing card. The cards should be "shuffled" adequately when you're done. The input file will contain entries like:
    	2 C
    	K D
    	A H
    	8 S
    
    etc. The first character represents one of the cards (2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,J,Q,K,A) and the second character represents one of the suits (C,D,H,S). Question: How do you know when the cards are shuffled adequately???

  2. (2) Create an HTML Index. Write a Perl script that goes through every HTML and HTM file in a directory and writes a new file called Index.html that contains a listing for each HTML file in that directory. The script will look through each HTML/HTM file looking for a META tag that looks like this: <META name="index-listing" content="some descriptive information"> If the file is called gingpoor.html then the output will look like this: gingpoor.html Some descriptive information someotherfile.html Other description The list of file names should be alphabetized and each filename should be a link to the actual html file.


Wizard

  1. (3) Random Sentence Generator. Write a Perl script that writes a random number of grammatically correct (probably) nonsense sentences. Green dreams cry furiously, for example.


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