Level 3

[thesamet]

Hint 1: Case sensitivity

Hint 2: import re

Hint 3: exactly three

HINT: When you are done, consider only the bodies ...

Hint: replace("\n", "")

There is not need to replace newlines.

HINT: one re call can find all the letters for you

bummer. doesn't work
i've wrote the correct expressions (atleast i think so...)
tried with new lines and without them...
any suggestions?

correction:

If you copy and paste into emacs via puTTY, it can interpret the character sequences oddly.

FYI.

I've got the string and I've tried every combination of it but I can't get to the next round.

[mjpieters]

I've got the string and I've tried every combination of it but I can't get to the next round.

If it is the right word you've found, just apply it like you did with the previous rounds; put it in the URL. If it doesn't work (if you got a 'Not Found' response) you did something wrong.

Can I pm you the string so you can see if I got it right?

The problem is underspecified. I get about 500 characters for the letters. Trying all a-z.html I get y.html and l.html. Is it really a 500 char nonsense string?

The problem is underspecified.

Meh. Nevermind.

Hint: you will have TEN sequences of characters which match the condition. Take one small letter from each of the matches, and... ;)

There is not need to replace newlines.

HINT: one re call can find all the letters for you

This is a confusing hint. Technically you can do it with one re call, but it will be an ugly regex.

So you SHOULD replace the newlines and treat the whole block as one big string.

[mjpieters]

This is a confusing hint. Technically you can do it with one re call, but it will be an ugly regex.

So you SHOULD replace the newlines and treat the whole block as one big string.

Nope and nope. No need to remove the newlines, and the regexp wouldn't be any different anyway.

Hint: you will have TEN sequences of characters which match the condition. Take one small letter from each of the matches, and...

Hmm... I find only six.

Single regex, no newlines replaced, and the six occurrences I find all match the criteria...

Am I misinterpreting 'sides'? Does it include a character on the next line? (That gets me eight.) Or should I assume the edges of the text block wrap around as in Asteroids?

Thanks.