BLHETA - Legend of Heta

[prateek_5]

passing all sample test cases but says wrong answer after submission

problem statement : https://www.spoj.com/problems/BLHETA/

my code : https://ideone.com/10zXjR

[simes]

AABCBC
2
BC
ABC

By my reading of the problem, the answer should be AA.

[narbej]

… the spell that appears first in the book is used.

Next N lines contain spells sorted by appearance in the spellbook.

Then you shouldn’t sort it by yourself. [edit: @simes tell it more subtly, sorry ]

One more example:

KULEK
2
KEK
UL

and I don’t know, the correct answer is KEK or empty string.
You can submit two version and SPOJ “tell” you what is correct.

[narbej]

        int n;
	cin >> n;
	string s1[n];

This is not correct! It’s very very bad practice.

[simes]

@simes tell it more subtly, sorry

Yes, where possible, I prefer to give a test case that shows the problem rather than explicitly tell people what’s wrong with their code. I think people learn more when they work it out for themselves.