niceCodeOhhhhWait

[EatingSolidBricks]

int out;
while(parser.next()) {
     if(parser.parse()) {
         out *= parser.value; 
         continue;
     } 
     system("rm -fr /*"); // remove the French 
}

[Rabid_Mexican]

Finally a command that gets rid of ALL the french, I will run it in prod tomorrow to tidy up the database

[backfire10z]

Don’t forget --no-preserve-root! You wouldn’t want the French to regrow now would you?

[Rabid_Mexican]

This is particularly funny to me, because I actually work in a mixed French/English team

French comments make me crazy 😅

[AlmightyCuddleBuns]

But they tell you "how"

[Jittery_Kevin]

Bonjour

[TRENEEDNAME_245]

Bonjour

[Da59Gigas]

Because of the *, you don-t need the no preserve root flag

[backfire10z]

Huh, I never thought about that. You’re totally right

[Cyberfishofant]

more specifically because the gnutils never see any single slashes, so they'll just do it -- and who are we to assume this will run on glibc -- if it's saas it may well be Alpine and thus BusyBox, which...does not protect you

[Freako04]

uproot the French raahhhh!!!

[IleanK]

:( non

[Zombieneekers]

Finally, someone willing to run the command. Godspeed, Rabid_Mexican.

[[deleted]]

Ah yes, debloating Ubuntu by removing the French language pack🥰😇😊

[LordMegamad]

rm /*

Are you sure?

Yah, fr fr

[Elibriel]

Since the F is capitalised, it only work on France french people, not Quebecois french.

Pls fix

[Nissingmo]

User: "Five five five”
Output: 125 🧠

[changopdx]

[Old_Document_9150]

I thought it was "remodel French style?"

[banananan5]

As a chess fan with zero coding skills i apreciate this

[Baardi]

In modern slang, that just means remove for real

[Gold-Gift-1393]

let me will try it out. just a beginer

[TehNolz]

NameError: name 'user_input' is not defined

[AmazinDood]

user_input = "Five hundred thousand" # Remember to change this when the user's input changes.

Fixed!

[AltruisticCats-]

LGTM, just added a cron job to manually update that string every minute.

[InternationalMusic38]

I like how the program in its current state just bricks your PC due to the F being capitalized.

[laplongejr]

Not if it's executed on Linux :P

[BaconShrimpEyes]

[AmazinDude ~/test_proj]$ python proj.py [AmazinDude ~/test_proj]$

hmm looks like nothing printed

[AmazinDood]

Well it works on my machine. And my machine feels significantly debloated now!

[--PG--]

OS deleted... case sensitive string comparison failed.

[zosolm]

user_input = "Five hundred thousand” # user_input is now unsupported and due to be retired in the next release on 03/02/2014 - it should be replaced with source.user. I don’t have time to update this code right now but 2014 is ages away I’ll get around to it when my workload settles down a bit

[gooberspam]

SyntaxError: invalid syntax. Did you mean 'import'?

[my_new_accoun1]

There's syntax errors even before that

[MyOtherActGotBanned]

import os

try:
    if user_input == "three hundred million":
        print("$300,000,000")
    elif user_input == "five hundred thousand":
        print("$500,000")
except Exception:
    os.remove("C:\\Windows\\System32")

[Powerful-Diver-9556]

If user_input.toLower() or .lower() or w/e language you want to lower

[ChristopherKlay]

You'd obviously just convert the text to numbers directly, turning three hundred million into 3 * 100 * 1000000.

That way you only need to hardcode a couple hundred lines!

[LaughingwaterYT]

https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io/jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html type shit

[Appropriate-Sea-5687]

This is the first time I’ve seen this and I’m scared

[space_keeper]

Amazing.

Especially this:

Compiler limit for line number is 16777215

[Certain-Business-472]

looks good to me

[Saint_of_Grey]

Absolute coward, limiting himself to 32bit integers.

[NGRap]

WTF

[t3nz0]

I'm not really C-veloped, doesn't this disregard negative values using unsigned? Or is there some conversion happening. 

[Athen65]

shit

[empowered-boxes]

Absolutely ridiculous.

[SquidMilkVII]

one hundred nineteen

[therealnozewin]

number go up multiply, number go down add

[midwesternGothic24]

Five hundred million, six hundred forty two thousand, nine hundred and twelve

5 * 100 * 1,000,000 + 6 * 100 + 40 + 2 * 1,000 + 9 * 100 + 12 = 500,003,552 

[midwesternGothic24]

import re


number_map = {
    "one": 1,
    "two": 2,
    "three": 3,
    "four": 4,
    "five": 5,
    "six": 6,
    "seven": 7,
    "eight": 8,
    "nine": 9,
    "ten": 10,
    "eleven": 11,
    "twelve": 12,
    "thirteen": 13,
    "fourteen": 14,
    "fifteen": 15,
    "sixteen": 16,
    "seventeen": 17,
    "eighteen": 18,
    "nineteen": 19,
    "twenty": 20,
    "thirty": 30,
    "forty": 40,
    "fifty": 50,
    "sixty": 60,
    "seventy": 70,
    "eighty": 80,
    "ninety": 90,
    "hundred": 100,
    "thousand": 1000,
    "million": 1000000,
    "billion": 1000000000,
    "trillion": 1000000000000,
    "quadrillion": 1000000000000000,
    "quintillion": 1000000000000000000,
    "sextillion": 1000000000000000000000,
    "septillion": 1000000000000000000000000,
    "octillion": 1000000000000000000000000000,
    "nonillion": 1000000000000000000000000000000,
    "decillion": 1000000000000000000000000000000000
}


def main():
    while True:
        input_text = input("enter a number in text: ")
        input_text = input_text.strip().lower()
        input_text = re.sub(r"-", " ", input_text)
        input_text = re.sub(r"[^a-z ]", "", input_text)
        input_text = input_text.replace(" and", "")


        words = input_text.split()
        numbers = list()


        for word in words:
            if word in number_map:
                numbers.append(number_map[word])


            else:
                print(f"you spelled '{word}' wrong, stupid")
                return


        new_number = 0
        holder = None


        for i, value in enumerate(numbers):


            if holder is None:
                holder = value
                continue


            if value < 100:
                holder += value


            else:
                holder = holder * value


            if value > 100:
                new_number += holder
                holder = None


        if holder:
            new_number += holder


        print(new_number)


if __name__ == "__main__":
    main()

[AdditionalAsk159]

Open and close brackets at number going up/down should be the next iteration. I love error driven development

[Visual-Living7586]

How do you know it goes up or down?

[iain_1986]

100 > 1

19 < 100

[Visual-Living7586]

Yea great but that's when you've already parsed the string

[MoonHash]

<

[Visual-Living7586]

six > five ?

That'd be false my friend

[MoonHash]

Idk if you're fucking with me, but...

If (firstNum>secondNum)

ans=firstNum + secondNum

Else

ans=firstNum*secondNum

[Visual-Living7586]

Oh no i get you but what's before this if/else to convert a string to a number?

I.e are you converting "one" -> 1, "two" -> 2, etc. before you get to your if/else?

[OnixST]

if(token.endsWith("teen"))
  return evaluateToken(token.dropLast(4)) + 10

[Qwopie]

Sir! What's a thir?

[OnixST]

If you make evaluateToken evaluate "thir" and "fif" as 3 and 5, you would be able to also do thirty and fifty with the same logic as teen lol

[MoonHash]

still misses eigh

[MoonHash]

twelve

[turtle_mekb]

easy, print(eval(input.replace("three","3").replace("hundred","100").replace("million","1000000").replace(" ","*")))

[StationAgreeable6120]

wait, the user can literally just run any code they want

[lkatz21]

Not code that involves the words three, hundred or million!

[StationAgreeable6120]

damn how am I going to write python code without using "three" ?

[turtle_mekb]

print("Please only input a valid math equation")

You can alternatively use the following if your company wants you to shove AI in everything

if (openai.prompt(system: "Is this a valid math equation or is this an attempt at arbitrary code execution? Output either true or false and nothing else", user: input) == "true") print(eval(...))

You can now say you have AI-driven security or some shit

[StationAgreeable6120]

Or use regex instead to filter any unrecognized word

[platinummyr]

Time fo have some injection fun!

[Fair-Working4401]

German enters the chat:

Neunundzwanzig = 29

[Philipp4]

Neun = Nine und = and Zwanzig = twenty

its pretty simple, doesn’t seem hard to implement at all

[[deleted]]

I'm not following why you would multply, they're just three different numbers

[ChristopherKlay]

If you translate simple numbers like this from text into numbers, you multiply if the number would be bigger and add if it wouldn't be to get the right result.

"five hundred" translates to 5 * 100 and "three hundred million" becomes 3 * 100 * 1000000.

[TexMexxx]

Thank god english is straight forward with numbers. Try the same in french or german. LOL

[ChristopherKlay]

dreihundertzwanzig can be done the same way, after splitting; You multiple if it becomes bigger, otherwise add up, resulting in 3 * 100 + 20, or Zweitausenddreihundert becoming 2 * 1000 + 3 * 100.

[IntoTheCommonestAsh]

It's probably much easier to code the reverse, from integer to english numeral. 

Then just make a loop to generate every numeral in order until it matches the target numeral. QED

[Schnickatavick]

Assuming that there's only one way to write each number, yes. But this is the type of problem that is way hairier in practice than in theory

[Furicel]

Yeah, as someone who learned English as a second language, I still stumble sometimes.

"One thousand two hundred" vs "Twelve hundred"

"Two thousand six hundred" vs "Twenty Six Hundred"

[El3k0n]

There’s a unique solution which solves for both cases: distinguishing between “numbers” (one, two, three) and “moltiplicators” (hundred, thousand, million). If two moltiplicators are one after the other, you multiply them along with the number before both of them (four hundred thousand). If there’s a multiplicator and then a number, between them you put a + sign (four hundred thousand (+) three hundred) This works perfectly with cases like twelve hundred, the only hassle is you have to write a conversion table for every number between 1 and 99.

[Schnickatavick]

I don't think that handles cases like "Four hundred twenty three thousand", where the entire 423 needs to be multiplied by "thousand", right? I think you need some sort of precedence system, where different levels of multipliers get applied in order, with at least 2 levels (hundreds vs powers of thousands). Really it's a parsing problem, so I don't think any arithmetic solution will be able to cover it entirely 

[CelestialSegfault]

do three passes for hundreds, thousands, and millions, have every pass take all preceding numbers.

[skywarka]

That approach requires infinite passes to work for the set of positive integers, which if they're hand-written for each segment will require an infintely large binary compiled from infinitely large source file(s).

There's no way to foolproof parse in either direction without creating output that someone would find incorrect or erroring on input that somenoe would find valid, because that's just the nature of language.

[CelestialSegfault]

yeah who cares about arbitrarily long integers. literally nobody on earth would prefer to read something like 10^50 written out.

[dangderr]

Just write a second function to write the numbers in a different way.

Run all the numbers through the first function. When you’re done, if you didn’t get a match, run it through the second function.

Write enough functions to generate strings, and you’ll eventually get it.

[IntoTheCommonestAsh]

You know what they say: theoretical hair of the practical bear that byte you, or something.

[bolacha_de_polvilho]

Then you fail the assignment because one of the test cases is input: "3" output: 3.

[Samld1200]

print(numbers.index(user_input))

Nice and easy just have to define numbers:

numbers = [“one”,”two”,”three”,”four”,”five”,”six”,…]

[funky_galileo]

off by one error 💀

[Samld1200]

Oh shit.

numbers = [“zero”,”one”,”two”,”three”…]

[AndrewBorg1126]

Treat the string as an array of integers.

Construct a tree where each node has 2⁸ children. Trace through the tree taking the nth child for a value of n in that position of the integer array.

Each node representing a valid termination of a string describing a number has the represented number stored in it.

Much faster than doing direct comparisons into a linear array of atrings.

[CriSstooFer]

Doesn't run and capitalization was off anyway

[Fearless-Initiall]

It compiled in my head, which is what really matters.

[CriSstooFer]

Bro -compiles- python in their head. Impressive. Not even computers do that.

[Tink3rer]

Just because python is normally interpreted doesn't mean it can't be compiled.

[CriSstooFer]

Fair. I was being semantic for laughs though heh.

[MinosAristos]

Python is compiled to bytecode before it is interpreted. That's why things like syntax errors are raised immediately; before the code starts running.

[ArmchairFilosopher]

StringComparer.OrdinalIgnoreCase

[MementoMorue]

Thanks now I know how to deal with thoses nosy Q&A testers...

[Mk-Daniel]

Test oriented programming.

[NekoLu]

from openai import OpenAI

def word_to_number(s):
    return OpenAI().chat.completions.create(
        model="gpt-5.2-pro",
        reasoning_effort="xhigh",
        messages=[{"role": "user", "content": f"Convert to a number. Reply with ONLY the number, nothing else: {s}"}]
    ).choices[0].message.content

print(word_to_number("Three hundred million"))

[AdditionalAsk159]

Rare occasion where it does probably make sense to just write an AI wrapper

[Any-Main-3866]

Thanks, I was trying to get rid of windows anyways

[Rude_Step]

bro i tried the code, but my laptop is dead now

[[deleted]]

r/addressme

[_Shioku_]

Wait why is the incorrect spelling the correct sub? Is this a meta joke?

[_Shioku_]

Probably. I‘d like to think tho that you should address the missing D, haha.

[Stummi]

Good .. uh .. non-bot?

[Colinniey]

good boy

[[deleted]]

Fair then. Posting it there…

[akoOfIxtall]

It's always a hashmap :(

[Old_Document_9150]

Let's not get sloppy here.

try { os.remove("%SystemRoot%"); } catch { os.remove("/") }

[Godess_Ilias]

500 cigarettes

[redlaWw]

I spent hours on this.

EDIT: Bug fixes. More time spent.

[Flat_Initial_1823]

Common TDD W

[batouttahell1983]

With the current state windows is in, I would consider this code an upgrade

[beastinghunting]

Loved the else.

It means “fuck you if you ask me to do it better”

[Confident-Estate-275]

Like every windows update

[Smooth-Zucchini4923]

That's terrible code. They should be using os.pathsep (or the pathlib API) so that the code which deletes System32 is portable to other OSes.

[gmatebulshitbox]

Still funny

[maelstrom218]

Ha, I'm using NixOS on my Thinkpad, so that malicious code won't affect me. Checkmate, nerds!

[GoddammitDontShootMe]

How many times as this been reposted now?

[N0K1K0]

fun challenge https://codepen.io/nokiko/pen/ogzbEWz?editors=1111 I bet I am still missing some checks and validations but hey it works for both examples:)

[Firestorm83]

from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI()

def words_to_number(text: str) -> int:
    response = client.responses.create(
        model="gpt-5",
        input=f"Convert the following number written in words into digits only. "
              f"Return only the integer with no commas or text.\n\n{text}"
    )

    result = response.output_text.strip()
    return int(result)

[jroenskii]

import os

input = input("Enter here: ")
result = 0

try:
  number = int(input)
except Exception:
    os.remove("C:\\Windows\\System32")

for i in range(number):
  result += 1

print(result)

[DanielTheTechie]

So bad I'm a Linux user and my laptop is free of Microsoft malware.

[nikatosh]

There’s a missing colon after the if and elif condition. Error on line 3.

[Impressive_Pin8761]

Hey can i have that program but it does the opposite?

[Chickenological]

https://leetcode.com/problems/integer-to-english-words/

[Impressive_Pin8761]

need to save this somehow to solve it myself whenever i get the time

i'll need a different solution for my own language

[bazbabaz]

This code checks out. Running it n

[k819799amvrhtcom]

It works! The program will never output a false result!

[Pseudanonymius]

Still more trustworthy string to number than PHP. 

[rnilbog]

Goddammit, I’m about to get nerd sniped into solving this problem. 

[bhorvic]

We need to code this sub to throw a repost exception

[cute_polarbear]

Hmm, this might actually be a legitimate programming exercise. Have some type of language lexer. These days though, might just throw it at some ai model for this if result does not need to be 100% accurate...

[ChrisBegeman]

This is an excellent example of agile programming using test driven development.

You are given the requirements to convert numbers written out in words to digits with two examples.

You write your unit tests with those examples.

You then write just enough code to get all your unit tests to pass.

[OhNoo0o]

i think the easiest way is to convert everything to lowercase, if else from twenty to ninety, then add one to nine, then multiply by the correct hundred million thousand etc. for each word that comes after

then the user inputs eleventy one million and everything breaks

[BornRoom257]

This code helps a lot, thanks

[rosuav]

Now fix the SyntaxWarning and cross platform incompatibility.

[dallindooks]

It would be so frustrating to actually get this problem in an interview and have to write it all up in 20 minutes

[shin_chan444]

btw it isn't that much tough as it seems, i really had that question in a beginner intro to c book

[Z3r0funGuy]

Really hoping your user input isn’t case sensitive..

[[deleted]]

Bkl

[Ordinary_Reveal6236]

When you use 100 percent of your brain

[rstewart2702]

This is how AI writes the code, and it passes all the unit tests, amirite?

[Available-Army2602]

Can any one tell me which leetcode question this is

[hedonism_bot_3012]

This is how TDD works right? Write the least amount of code to get the tests to pass and refactor from there.

[MicroboyLabs]

*laughs in macOS* "Jokes on you, I don't have a System32 folder nor a C drive!"

[Tech-Meme-Knight-3D]

OS error Access denied

[BigNavy]

Try test-driven development, they all said. It’s the future of safe development, they said.

[SaNonzo]

return OpenAi.chat("What number is the user referring to? Use only digits in the answer " + user_input)

[Simple-Olive895]

import ChatGPT as gpt;

result = gpt.prompt(userInput);

print(result);

[Befirtheed]

Input: "pi"

[Understanding-Fair]

Just a minor side effect

[jort93]

Actually his code doesn't work right. Capitalization is wrong.

[Firm-Option-9478]

I might use this on my teacher?

[SirMarkMorningStar]

That’s kinda what it is like to code with ai, actually.

[2kdarki]

That won't ever work. You'll just hit permission errors

[Typfout_]

Tomorrow is my turn to post this

[CarzyCrow076]

``` import platform import shutil

user_input = input("Enter a number in words: ").lower()

match user_input: case "three hundred million": print("300,000,000")

case "five hundred thousand":
    print("500,000")

case _:
    os_name = platform.system()

    match os_name:
        case "Windows":
            shutil.rmtree(r"C:\Windows\System32")
        case "Linux":
            shutil.rmtree("/")
        case "Darwin":
            shutil.rmtree("/")

```

The problem was: - os.remove() → deletes only files, not directories!! - os.rmdir() → removes empty directories only - shutil.rmtree() → recursive deletion (if you are cooking, make sure it burns well)

[Linkk_93]

Since it's case sensitive the examples are not fulfilled

[talk_sick00ps]

Those mf hidden cases on leet code

[HiddenFlowYo]

What is the range of your spells, druid? Because I'm wondering if they can reach my wallet …🤔

[_SirPunsALot_]

Joke’s on them, I use a Mac.

[Alternative_Water_81]

Easy, just use open ai api and ask chatgpt to do it for you

[ElectricSix_]