Haiku generator
Hello, fellow monks. This is my first origonal program and it is a basic haiku generator. I got the idea because we are doing poetry in school and I saw the poem thing by [zentara] and thought it would be cool.
holli, /regexed monk/
use strict;
my @line1 = ('annoying sensei',
'oh, young grasshopper',
'dis-honourable',
'you aburi brain'
);
my @line2 = ('learn to run before you walk',
'he thinks he knows everything',
'insubordinate pupil',
);
my @line3 = ('hey, wait a minute',
'he must be senile',
'he will face my wrath',
'his brain is not well'
);
print $line1[rand @line1], "\n";
print $line2[rand @line2], "\n";
print $line3[rand @line3], "\n";
Seeing as this is my first program, if anyone could give me some pointers, that would be uber.
SOA, DOA, GOA, whatever,
hypknotizzed
Re: Haiku generator
created: 2006-03-04 16:23:25
if anyone could give me some pointers, that would be uber.Whenever you catch yourself typing the same expressions more than two times, give it a break and think: "Can I somehow express this in a loop?". In this case the outcome of such a thought would look like this code.
use strict;
my @haiku =
(
[
'annoying sensei',
'oh, young grasshopper',
'dis-honourable',
'you aburi brain'
],
[
'learn to run before you walk',
'he thinks he knows everything',
'insubordinate pupil',
],
[
'hey, wait a minute',
'he must be senile',
'he will face my wrath',
'his brain is not well'
],
);
for my $line (0..2)
{
print $haiku[$line][rand @{$haiku[$line]}], "\n";
}
Here we have a data structure (array of arrays) that holds your haiku strings. Once we have that we can easily loop over the main array an choose a random line from each "sub-array". See perlref and perlreftut for more about data structures.
holli, /regexed monk/
Re^2: Haiku generator
created: 2006-03-04 16:34:52
But then, why not just iterate through the array directly?
use warnings;
use strict;
my @haiku =
(
[
'annoying sensei',
'oh, young grasshopper',
'dis-honourable',
'you aburi brain'
],
[
'learn to run before you walk',
'he thinks he knows everything',
'insubordinate pupil',
],
[
'hey, wait a minute',
'he must be senile',
'he will face my wrath',
'his brain is not well'
],
);
for my $line (@haiku)
{
print $$line[rand @$line], "\n";
}
Re: Haiku generator
created: 2006-03-04 23:05:32
If you managed to do so much with so little knowledge you must be well suited to perl. Arrays are some sort of 'loops' in a linear way...
print("$_ /n") foreach (qw(this is a loop of words));
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