diff --git a/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md b/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md index 2675b58..a729848 100644 --- a/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md +++ b/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/instructions.md @@ -1,8 +1,13 @@ # Instructions -An anagram is a rearrangement of letters to form a new word. -Given a word and a list of candidates, select the sublist of anagrams of the given word. +Your task is to, given a target word and a set of candidate words, to find the subset of the candidates that are anagrams of the target. -Given `"listen"` and a list of candidates like `"enlists" "google" -"inlets" "banana"` the program should return a list containing -`"inlets"`. +An anagram is a rearrangement of letters to form a new word: for example `"owns"` is an anagram of `"snow"`. +A word is _not_ its own anagram: for example, `"stop"` is not an anagram of `"stop"`. + +The target and candidates are words of one or more ASCII alphabetic characters (`A`-`Z` and `a`-`z`). +Lowercase and uppercase characters are equivalent: for example, `"PoTS"` is an anagram of `"sTOp"`, but `StoP` is not an anagram of `sTOp`. +The anagram set is the subset of the candidate set that are anagrams of the target (in any order). +Words in the anagram set should have the same letter case as in the candidate set. + +Given the target `"stone"` and candidates `"stone"`, `"tones"`, `"banana"`, `"tons"`, `"notes"`, `"Seton"`, the anagram set is `"tones"`, `"notes"`, `"Seton"`. diff --git a/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/introduction.md b/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/introduction.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1acbdf0 --- /dev/null +++ b/exercises/practice/anagram/.docs/introduction.md @@ -0,0 +1,12 @@ +# Introduction + +At a garage sale, you find a lovely vintage typewriter at a bargain price! +Excitedly, you rush home, insert a sheet of paper, and start typing away. +However, your excitement wanes when you examine the output: all words are garbled! +For example, it prints "stop" instead of "post" and "least" instead of "stale." +Carefully, you try again, but now it prints "spot" and "slate." +After some experimentation, you find there is a random delay before each letter is printed, which messes up the order. +You now understand why they sold it for so little money! + +You realize this quirk allows you to generate anagrams, which are words formed by rearranging the letters of another word. +Pleased with your finding, you spend the rest of the day generating hundreds of anagrams.