SPAM: Recycled, Excuse Generating Program for USCIS

djh

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In order to reduce the amount of time required listening to goofy excuses USCIS give in why they haven’t approved cases, we could have Kashmir write a program that will search for a list of keywords in a list of excuses identifying lame excuses. Keywords can be matched in an excuse regardless of case.

Input
Input to your program will consist of multiple sets of data. Line 1 of
each set will contain exactly two integers. The first number (1 <= K <=
20) defines the number of keywords to be used in the search. The second
number (1 <= E <= 20) defines the number of excuses in the set to be
searched. Lines 2 through K+1 each contain exactly one keyword. Lines
K+2 through K+1+E each contain exactly one excuse. All keywords in the
keyword list will contain only contiguous lower case alphabetic
characters of length L (1 <= L <= 20) and will occupy columns 1 through
L in the input line. All excuses can contain any upper or lower case
alphanumeric character, a space, or any of the following punctuation
marks [".,!?] not including the square brackets and will not exceed 70
characters in length. Excuses will contain at least 1 non-space
character.

Output
For each input set, you are to print the worst excuse(s) from the list.
• The worst excuse(s) is/are defined as the excuse(s) which contains the largest number of incidences of keywords.
• If a keyword occurs more than once in an excuse, each occurrance is considered a separate incidence.
• A keyword ``occurs" in an excuse if and only if it exists in the string in contiguous form and is delimited by the beginning or end of the line or any non-alphabetic character or a space.
For each set of input, you are to print a single line with the number of the set immediately after the string ``Excuse Set #". (See the Sample Output). The following line(s) is/are to contain the worst excuse(s) one per line exactly as read in. If there is more than one worst excuse, you may print them in any order.
After each set of output, you should print a blank line.

Sample Input
5 3
dog
ate
AOS case file
canary
died

Results...
My dog ate the AOS case file.
Can you believe my dog died after eating my canary... AND THE AOS CASE FILE?
This excuse is so good that it contain 0 keywords.

6 5
superhighway
crazy
thermonuclear
office
war
building

Results...
I am having a superhighway built in my office.
I am actually crazy.
1234567890.....,,,,,0987654321?????!!!!!!
There was a thermonuclear war!
I ate my dog, my canary, and the AOS case file ... note outdated keywords?
Sample Output
Excuse Set #1
Can you believe my dog died after eating my canary... AND THE AOS CASE FILE?

Excuse Set #2
I am having a superhighway built in my office.
There was a thermonuclear war!
 
SPAM: didn't you know ?

They already have this program up and running. It is called 'online case status'. You enter a case number and it will generate a random bizarre case status. Typically it involves a range of times that would make my cable repair man blush.

Sample:

You submitted an application for xxyyy to this office. We have received the application and immediately shipped it to Yucca Mountain for safekeeping.

It will typically take between 59 and 12.3444 days to process this type of case. A written notification will be generated and mailed to an obsolete address you stated on the I94 you filled out when you entered this country 12 years ago on a pleasure trip. If you don't retrieve this notification within 0.5 days and reply to it, your case will be denied and you will burn in eternal dammnation. If you haven't heard from us 2 weeks after the projected timeframe, please call our National Customer Frustration Center at 1 800 GOS-CREW and have an imbezile contractor read this message to you from HER computer screen. And no, you can be the senators cousin, we still will not budge to political pressure. We will however provide a printed copy of this screen to the senators representative if so requested.

Yours Sincerely,

The goverment.
 
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