Find words that contain at least "msixpodual"

msixpodual-words.pl

#!/usr/bin/env perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
use Text::Table;

my @flags = split //, "msixpodual";
my %flags;
@flags{@flags} = ();

my %words;

while (my $word = <>) {
    chomp $word;
    my $cp = $word;
    my $remaining = '';

    my $score = 0;
    for my $flag (@flags) {
        if ($cp =~ s/$flag//i) {
            $score++;
        } else {
            $remaining .= $flag;
        }
    }

    # Skip non-serious candidates
    next if length($cp) > 0;

    if ($score) {
        $words{$word} = {
            score => $score,
            remaining => $remaining,
        }
    }
}

my @order = sort {
    ($words{$b}->{score} <=> $words{$a}->{score}) or
    length($a) <=> length($a)
} keys %words;

my @tr;
for my $word (@order) {
    push @tr => [
        $words{$word}->{score},
        $word,
        $words{$word}->{remaining},
    ];
}

my $tb = Text::Table->new(
    "Score", "Word", "Remaining"
);
$tb->load(@tr);
print $tb;

Oops: length($a) <=> length($a)
(Not that it matters; if two words have the same score, then they have the same length as well. In fact, the score /is/ the length!)

There's a much improved version of this on perl5-porters now. This was just something I hacked up and is full of bugs and misfeatures :)