At 7:45 AM -0800 3/29/04, Jim Kring wrote: >Here is the problem description that I put up on the challenge page. >When you are typing at a terminal (telnet for example) and you press the backspace >key, a "\b" (0x08) character is sent via TCP-IP. The server that is parsing the text >must interpret this string and remove the preceding character, which may have already >been transmitted over the network. If the server receives a string like "This is a >test\b\b\b\bgood test for removing backspaces.", it should remove the backspaces and >the preceding characters so that the string becomes "This is a good test for removing >backspaces." Since there were four (4) backspaces we have to remove the backspaces >and the four preceding characters "t", "e", "s", and "t". Easy, huh?
In terms of the problem description, must the VI handle the case where there are more \b (backspaces) than there are characters? If this is true then the VIs should pass an accuracy test as well as performance! -Scott
