Problem 1915. GJam 2013 Veterans: Baby Height Prediction

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This Challenge is derived from <a href = "http://code.google.com/codejam/contest/2334486/dashboard#s=p1">GJam 2013 Veterans Baby Height</a>. Only the first 82 of 5958 test cases are evaluated.The GJam story goes that a baby's final height can be bounded given its mom's and dad's height(Ht) and its sex. Baby Nominal Ht is (Mom Ht+ Dad Ht + Baby Sex Adj)/2. A boy gets an Adjust of +5" while a girl is -5". The range is +/- 4" from nominal. However, for fractional inches the range is reduced until endpoints are whole inches.Input: str , String of Sex, Mom and Dad Height x'y"Output: H , string of Predicted Height RangeExamples: [str] [H]<pre class="language-matlab">B 5'11" 6'2" spawns 5'11" to 6'7"
G 5'11" 6'2" spawns 5'6" to 6'2"
B 3'4" 3'4" spawns 3'3" to 3'10"
</pre>Commentary:<pre class="language-matlab">1) Provide input like fgetl per test case
2) 15 of 32 entrants completed this Challenge
3) This is a test of regexp and sprintf formatting (or just regexprep)
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Richard Zapor on 6 Oct 2013

Nice one-liner regexprep with skillful reading of the input string format. The processing and output string creation is an efficient marvel.

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