Re: OT programming challenge: fastest/best/shortest C program to jumble a sentence, then restore it

On 3/8/2024 2:48 PM, rbowman wrote:

On Fri, 8 Mar 2024 08:09:33 -0500, DFS wrote:
>

It's harder than you think to randomly shuffle the words in a shorter
sentence, so that each word ends up in a different position than it
started in.
>
Bring it!

  Thanks for doing it.
  FYI:
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~$ gcc jumble_rbowman.c -o jumble
 jumble_rbowman.c: In function ‘main’:
jumble_rbowman.c:9:29: warning: missing terminating " character
     9 |     char* sentence = strdup("Once you try it, you'll see it doesn't need
       |                             ^
jumble_rbowman.c:9:29: error: missing terminating " character
     9 |     char* sentence = strdup("Once you try it, you'll see it doesn't need
       | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
jumble_rbowman.c:10:1: error: ‘spice’ undeclared (first use in this function)
    10 | spice.");
       | ^~~~~
jumble_rbowman.c:10:1: note: each undeclared identifier is reported only once for each function it appears in
jumble_rbowman.c:10:7: warning: missing terminating " character
    10 | spice.");
       |       ^
jumble_rbowman.c:10:7: error: missing terminating " character
    10 | spice.");
       |       ^~~
jumble_rbowman.c:11:5: error: expected identifier before ‘char’
    11 |     char* tokens[20];
       |     ^~~~
jumble_rbowman.c:54:1: error: expected ‘,’ or ‘;’ before ‘}’ token
    54 | }
       | ^
jumble_rbowman.c:54:1: error: expected declaration or statement at end of input
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