6letterwordexercise/Program.cs

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C#

class Program
{
static void Main()
{
// Read all words from the input.txt file and store them in a hash set for quick lookup
var words = new List<string>(File.ReadAllLines("input.txt"));
var wordSet = new HashSet<string>(words);
// Find all combinations that form a 6-letter word
var filteredWords = words.Where(w => w.Length <= 6).ToList();
var combos = new HashSet<string>();
Parallel.ForEach(filteredWords, word =>
{
FindCombinations(word, filteredWords, new List<string> { word }, word.Length, wordSet, combos);
});
// Print out all found combinations
foreach (var combo in combos)
{
Console.WriteLine(combo);
}
}
static void FindCombinations(string currentWord, List<string> words, List<string> currentCombination, int currentLength, HashSet<string> wordSet, HashSet<string> combos)
{
// Check if the current combination forms a valid 6-letter word
if (currentLength == 6)
{
string combinedWord = string.Join("", currentCombination);
if (wordSet.Contains(combinedWord))
{
string result = $"{string.Join("+", currentCombination)}={combinedWord}";
lock (combos) // Ensure thread-safe access to combos
{
if (combos.Add(result)) // Add to the set and check for uniqueness
{
Console.WriteLine(result); // Echo out the found combination
}
}
}
return;
}
// Try adding each word to the current combination
foreach (var word in words)
{
// Skip if adding the word would exceed 6 characters
if (currentLength + word.Length > 6)
{
continue;
}
// Avoid duplicate combinations
if (currentCombination.Contains(word))
{
continue;
}
// Add the word to the current combination and recurse
var newCombination = new List<string>(currentCombination) { word };
FindCombinations(currentWord, words, newCombination, currentLength + word.Length, wordSet, combos);
}
}
}