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So, you're browsing Programming Puzzles & Code Golf, and you see a new challenge. The author (gasp) forgot to say "No standard Loopholes". You decide to take advantage of this situation, and you read the answer from a file/network. However, you need to make sure that your answer is actually shorter than the legitimate answers, so you golf it, too.
The Challenge
Write a complete program that prints out the contents of the file definitelynottheanswer.txt to STDOUT. This text file only contains valid ASCII characters. Alternatively, the program can get the file location from STDIN or command line args. The only input allowed is the file location if you choose to get the location from the user; otherwise, no input is allowed. There is no reward for getting the file location from the user, but the user input of the file location does not count against the byte total (in other words, definitelynottheanswer.txt wouldn't be included in the byte score).
The program must not write to STDERR.
Bonus
Retrieve the file from the internet instead of a file (the URL must be user-supplied). Reward: multiply source length by 0.85
Scoring
- This is code-golf, so the lowest score,
program length (bytes) * bonus, wins. - No (other) standard loopholes.
- If the language does not support reading files from disk, it cannot be used (sorry).
Daniel M.
Posted 2015-10-09T02:52:03.903
Reputation: 3 737
4So the task is... read a file? – Alex A. – 2015-10-09T02:57:48.183
No- it's "getting the solution from an external source" </s>. This idea sounded a lot better when I was writing it... – Daniel M. – 2015-10-09T03:00:16.387
I'll try writing my next one earlier than 11 pm – Daniel M. – 2015-10-09T03:02:53.650
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I recommend using the Sandbox for future challenges. That way you can get feedback before the challenge is posted.
– Alex A. – 2015-10-09T03:04:02.4372It should be noted that if a poster doesn't say "No standard loopholes" in their question, they are still forbidden by default unless the OP explicitly allows them. – mbomb007 – 2015-10-09T15:26:28.593
How many only use standard loopholes have their been in the past? It seems like there have been many – Beta Decay – 2015-10-09T16:58:38.670
@BetaDecay I searched it and there wasn't anything similar in the first few pages. – Daniel M. – 2015-10-09T17:04:31.710
I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is [tag:underhanded]. – Erik the Outgolfer – 2016-06-07T15:16:19.100
4I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this is basically like code-trolling, but without the tag. – NoOneIsHere – 2016-06-07T16:39:15.203