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POCode Golf - Word Scrambler
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copied!<p>Please answer with the shortest possible source code for a program that converts an arbitrary plaintext to its corresponding ciphertext, following the sample input and output I have given below. Bonus points* for the least CPU time or the least amount of memory used.</p> <h2>Example 1:</h2> <p><strong>Plaintext:</strong> The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious!</p> <p><strong>Ciphertext:</strong> eTh kiquc nobrw xfo smjup rvoe eth yalz .odg !uioiapeislgriarpSueclfaiitcxildcos</p> <h2>Example 2:</h2> <p><strong>Plaintext:</strong> 123 1234 12345 123456 1234567 12345678 123456789</p> <p><strong>Ciphertext:</strong> 312 4213 53124 642135 7531246 86421357 975312468</p> <h2>Rules:</h2> <ol> <li>Punctuation is defined to be included with the word it is closest to.</li> <li>The center of a word is defined to be ceiling((strlen(word)+1)/2).</li> <li>Whitespace is ignored (or collapsed).</li> <li>Odd words move to the right first. Even words move to the left first.</li> </ol> <p>You can think of it as reading every other character backwards (starting from the end of the word), followed by the remaining characters forwards. Corporation => XoXpXrXtXoX => niaorCoprto.</p> <p>Thank you to those who pointed out the inconsistency in my description. This has lead many of you down the wrong path, which I apologize for. Rule #4 should clear things up.</p> <p>*Bonus points will only be awarded if Jeff Atwood decides to do so. Since I haven't checked with him, the chances are slim. Sorry.</p>

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