Web compress

[admin]

The purpose of this puzzle is to write a simple data compression to compress specific type of data: code programs and English text (for the comments).

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[jodoherty]

The problem mentions that "the compressed data must only contain he characters for newline (\n, \r), tab (\t) and the ASCII characters from 32 to 126 (inclusive)", but what about the data to be compressed? What character encoding will be used? Will it also be limited to a subset of characters like the output?

[admin]

The input data is also limited to the set of ASCII characters specified.

[avD.ZeeK]

The data to compress or decompress is passed to the standard input (stdin).

I am confused here, the input data will also contain '\n' when the testcase has another line. How do I determine the end of input data?..
Please help me here

ZeeK

[admin]

When you read all the data from standard input, you will get an EOF (End Of File) which can be tested in different ways depending on the languages (feof for example, or in python, you could just call read() which would read everything, etc...).

If you a language specific question about detecting an EOF, please ask it in the language forums.

Good luck

[Wayne Colvin]

I can't submit a shell script? Arghhhhhh
Oh well.

[David Berthelot]

No but most shell scripts commands are available in Perl/Ruby/Python/PHP extension modules...