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POCode Golf - Banner Generation
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copied!<p>When thanking someone, you don't want to just send them an e-mail saying "Thanks!", you want to have something FLASHY:</p> <pre><code>Input: THANKS!! Output: TTT H H AAA N N K K SSS !!! !!! T H H A A NNN K K S !!! !!! T HHH AAA NNN KK SSS !!! !!! T H H A A N N K K S T H H A A N N K K SSS !!! !!! </code></pre> <p>Write a program to generate a banner. You only have to generate upper-case A-Z along with spaces and exclamation points (what is a banner without an exclamation point?). All characters are made up of a 3x5 grid of the same character (so the S is a 3x5 grid made of S). All output should be on one row (so no newlines). Here are all the letters you need:</p> <pre><code>Input: ABCDEFGHIJKL Output: AAA BBB CCC DD EEE FFF GGG H H III JJJ K K L A A B B C D D E F G H H I J K K L AAA BBB C D D EE FF G G HHH I J KK L A A B B C D D E F G G H H I J J K K L A A BBB CCC DD EEE F GGG H H III JJJ K K LLL Input: MNOPQRSTUVWX Output: M M N N OOO PPP QQQ RR SSS TTT U U V V W W X X MMM NNN O O P P Q Q R R S T U U V V W W X M M NNN O O PPP Q Q RR SSS T U U V V WWW X M M N N O O P QQQ R R S T U U V V WWW X M M N N OOO P QQQ R R SSS T UUU V WWW X X Input: YZ! Output: Y Y ZZZ !!! Y Y Z !!! YYY Z !!! Y Z YYY ZZZ !!! </code></pre> <p>The winner is the <strong>shortest source code</strong>, as counted by the number of bytes it takes to store the file in <strong>utf-8 encoding</strong>. Source code should read input from stdin, output to stdout. You can assume input will only contain <code>[A-Z! ]</code>. If you insult the user on incorrect input, you get a 10 character discount =P.</p> <p>I was going to require these exact 28 characters, but to make it more interesting, you can choose how you want them to look - whatever makes your code shorter! To prove that your letters do look like normal letters, show the output of the last three runs.</p> <hr> <p>Shortest codes so far, in characters (utf8 encoding if non-ASCII present):</p> <h2>133 J</h2> <h2>205 Python</h2> <h2>209 Ruby</h2> <h2>313 Haskell</h2> <h2>345 C89</h2> <h2>382 F#</h2>

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