CCC '00 S3 - Surfing

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Points: 7
Time limit: 1.0s
Memory limit: 256M
Problem types
Canadian Computing Competition: 2000 Stage 1, Junior #5, Senior #3

Every web page is identified by a string of characters known as a URL (Uniform Resource Locator). Web pages are formatted using HTML (Hypertext Markup Language). HTML has many codes, collectively known as markup, that allow the author to specify the format of the pages as well as to specify links to other pages. For this problem, we are concerned only with the markup that identifies links to other pages within a given page.

A link within the page is denoted <A HREF="URL"> where URL is the URL of some other page. A user viewing a page containing a link may click on the link to view the other page.

You are to write a program that reads a number of web pages and their associated URLs. For each link on each page, you must print the URL of the page containing the link, and the URL of the page referred to by the link. Following the last page, you are then given several pairs of URLs. For each pair, you are to assume that you are viewing the page identified by the first URL, and determine whether it is possible to click a sequence of links so as to view the page identified by the second URL. If so, you should print Can surf from here to there. where here and there are the two URLs. If not you should print Can't surf from here to there.

Input Specification

The first line of input will contain an integer n \le 100, the number of web pages. For each web page, there will be a line containing its URL, followed by several lines containing the page. The URL will consist of up to 80 non-blank printable characters and will not contain any quotation marks. The first line of the page will be <HTML> and the last line will be </HTML>. Each page will contain up to 100 links in the format described above. Each link will be contained within a single line of input. URLs in the link will be those of pages given in the input. The markup keywords A, HREF, and HTML will appear only in uppercase.

Following the n pages will be several pairs of lines giving URLs required by the problem as specified above. The last line of input will be The End.

Output Specification

For each pair, print the appropriate message given above.

Sample Input

3
http://ccc.uwaterloo.ca
<HTML> <TITLE>This is the CCC page</TITLE>
Hello there boys
and girls.  <B>Let's</B> try <A HREF="http://abc.def/ghi"> a
little
problem </A>
</HTML>
http://abc.def/ghi
<HTML> Now is the <TITLE>time</TITLE> for all good people to program.
<A HREF="http://www.www.www.com">hello</A><A HREF="http://xxx">bye</A>
</HTML>
http://www.www.www.com
<HTML>
<TITLE>Weird and Wonderful World</TITLE>
</HTML>
http://ccc.uwaterloo.ca
http://www.www.www.com
http://www.www.www.com
http://ccc.uwaterloo.ca
The End

Sample Output

Link from http://ccc.uwaterloo.ca to http://abc.def/ghi
Link from http://abc.def/ghi to http://www.www.www.com
Link from http://abc.def/ghi to http://xxx
Can surf from http://ccc.uwaterloo.ca to http://www.www.www.com.
Can't surf from http://www.www.www.com to http://ccc.uwaterloo.ca.

Comments


  • 4
    fireheartjerry  commented on Dec. 23, 2023, 3:42 p.m.

    Remember that when you print Link from... you omit the period, and when you print Can/Can't surf from... you include the period.


  • 6
    jerrycui07  commented on Aug. 4, 2022, 3:33 p.m.

    The order in which you print the "Link from" urls also matter - it has to be in the order the links appear in the input.


  • 3
    Sucram314  commented on March 20, 2022, 4:59 a.m.

    Very fun problem!!!! For python users, you can abuse the re module (import re) to parse the data very easily


  • 11
    Genius3435  commented on May 29, 2021, 8:35 p.m. ← edited

    To clarify what the problem wants, the link from __a__ to __b__ stuff should be exactly like that, without a period.

    Then for the queries about the paths, it should be something like Can['t] surf from __a__ to __b__., with a period.

    And if you can't find the error in your program, here is the link to the test cases.


  • 8
    GreenRobot  commented on June 11, 2020, 3:11 p.m.

    What a great problem! This is how the page rank algorithm for google works. By measuring the amount of backlinks to any given website.


  • 3
    Evang  commented on April 18, 2020, 1:58 a.m. ← edited

    Can </HTML> be on the same line as the web page?


  • 28
    Dan13llljws  commented on Dec. 26, 2019, 6:21 p.m. ← edited

    It is really sad when you forgot to print the period at the end and you have absolutely no idea y your code is wrong