Add

"" -- I have absolutely nothing worthwhile to say ;)

Any self respecting instructor should have the null string in the test
suite for this assignment.

Mike

At 9:53 PM -0400 04/24/00, Hassett wrote:
>Getting back to Glenn's example (I'm a bit behind on my e-mail):
>
>> That's correct.  An example is "Madam, I'm Adam."  If you ignore the
>> spaces and punctuation, that becomes MADAMIMADAM, which is the same
>> sequence of letters either forward or backward.
>
>This is a nice example (particularly for Ada) because of what you
>get as you trim the ends (and adjust case, punctuation, and spacing):
>
>  "Adam, I'm Ada."  -- Maybe he wasn't talking to Eve!
>  "Dam, I mad!"     -- Weak on spelling and grammar, but it makes some sense.
>  "Am I Ma?"        -- Mother has amnesia?
>  "mim"             -- At least it's a word!
>  "I"               -- Ditto
>
>- Jim Hassett


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