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I would be grateful if someone could provide an easy way to convert the first killer file definition (below) to the second. (MS Excel, perhaps?)

The first definition is from Puzzle Tiger. The second definition is, of course, the format used by SudokuSolver and jSudoku. I want to be able to use SS or jS to solve puzzles generated by PT. I don't need to go in the opposite direction.

Please note that I have inserted carriage returns in the second definition. Otherwise the line is so long that it intrudes into the following Firefox tabs, and I get rude (ruud?) complaints from the webmasters of those sites.

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0011223334441526738841526779aa1556bb9cadee6ff9cadegffh9cideggghjciiiiklljjjjkkkll 6, 25, 24, 29, 29, 12, 26, 7, 4, 26, 20, 5, 21, 17, 20, 22, 21, 5, 18, 24, 16, 28,

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3x3::k:1537:1537:6402:6402:6147:6147:7428:7428:7428:
7429:7429:7429:6402:3078:6147:6663:1800:7428:
1033:1033:7429:6402:3078:6147:6663:1800:1800:
6666:5131:5131:6402:3078:3078:6663:1292:1292:
6666:5389:5131:4366:5135:5135:6663:5648:5648:
6666:5389:5131:4366:5135:5393:5648:5648:1298:
6666:5389:4627:4366:5135:5393:5393:5393:1298:
6164:5389:4627:4627:4627:4627:4117:7190:7190:
6164:6164:6164:6164:4117:4117:4117:7190:7190:
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The first definition might be more clearly seen as:



The pairs of numbers seem to correspond to the cage totals.

Old Gran
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Hi

try this little standalone converter

paste the PuzzleTiger string into the first text box

click on Convert

if it valid, you will get the PS string in the second text box.

Rgds
Richard

[Edited with new information - should anybody want a puzzle with more than 36 cages]

The script worked great.

Thanks for that.
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I wonder how the Puzzle Tiger code works with puzzles with more than 36 cages (10 digits + 26 letters = 36)? Perhaps one could try to enter a puzzle with 81 "cages" and see how the program generate a code...

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Here's the code for a "Very Easy" 39-cage puzzle from Puzzle Tiger:

0122345560177389a6bccdd89aebffdgghheijkklmmnoijpklqqnorrpstuuvwxyysttvvwxzzAABBCC 3, 14, 7, 8, 9, 15, 7, 13, 3, 5, 15, 12, 13, 24, 7, 4, 10, 11, 10, 14, 16, 5, 16, 5, 8, 7, 14, 15, 8, 19, 5, 8, 15, 12, 6, 7, 11, 9, 15,



For the benefit of mankind (peoplekind?), I will undertake the assignment.

Do I simply need to solve a puzzle (such as the puzzle above), then manually enter each digit in its own cage?

Or are there hidden ramifications, dependencies, pitfalls, and hurdles for the unwary?
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So the program uses capital letters to follow the small letters. That makes it able to code 62 cages (10 digits, 26 small letters, 26 capital letters).

The point of testing on an 81-cage killer is to check how it would code cages #63-81. My guess is it uses symbols/punctuation marks etc but it remains to be proved.

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Converter modified in light of this new information.

I would consider any Killer with more than 62 cages rather boring ... even 36 is starting to get rather simplistic.

Rgds
Richard

Any proper Killer (i.e. no singlet cage) has at most 40 cages.

But I'm just curious about the coding principle for the sake of it.

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