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Find 13 caches that contain all 13 punctuation characters used in standard English per http://coord.info/GC34GEN

in Miscellaneous by huggy_d1 (150 points)

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I managed to check 12 of 13 punctuation marks - except apostrophe. I will try further to enable full set but I might be a technical limitation of checker engine ...

http://project-gc.com/Challenges/GC34GEN/8270
by rabmoor (2.8k points)
My fault, whilst editing I obviously managed to hit the 'f' key by mistake changing a variable name.
Its fixed now, thanks for the report.
A problem still exist in the checker. Pinkunicorn get two punctuation characters from the same cache. The challenge require a different cache on each punctuation characters

Question mark: GC3TEVE: Var bor du lilla .....?, 2012-08-15,
Ellipsis: GC3TEVE: Var bor du lilla .....?, 2012-08-15,
that's working as intended (although the output needs improving). Pinkunicorn hasn't completed the challenge so we don't know which punctuation mark will be used from that cache. He has got the option to go out and get another cache containing either an ellipsis or a question mark (along with ones for semicolon and dash) once that happens the uniqueness will be resolved.

It should be showing all matches so that whilst you are completing the challenge you get a list of all the ones that match (allowing you to calculate which one to go and get) not sure why that isn't working.
That's still incorrect. I've logged (for instance)

http://coord.info/GC570T2 Hur växer granen egentligen?
http://coord.info/GC4XPY2 Ring, ring...
As I said, until you fulfil the criteria it should be showing all the matches not just the first cache which matches, I'll have to dig into the code when I get a chance to work out why that isn't working. It only attempts to uniquify (ok that's not a real word) once you've found all groups and have a chance of getting a winning solution.
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