This problem is from Five programming problems every Software Engineer should be able to solve in less than 1 hour which itself is an interesting read. The first few problems are trivial, but the fourth one can be a bit more interesting.
Given a list of integers separated by a single space on standard input, print out the largest and smallest values that can be obtained by concatenating the integers together on their own line.
For example:
Input:
5 56 50
Output:
50556
56550
Various points of order:
- The order of the results are smallest then largest.
- Only the smallest and largest values may be printed out (iterating over all the variations and printing them out isn't valid).
- There will always be two or more integers in the list.
- It is possible for the largest and smallest results to be the same. In the case of input
5 55
, the number555
should be printed twice. - The integers are not necessarily distinct.
5 5
is valid input. - Leading
0
s on integers are not valid input. You will not need to account for05 55
.
As this is code golf, shortest entry wins.