Ref : Blaine's Puzzle Blog

Due to the memory limitations of tiny-c, I implemented the solution via http://primepuzzle.com/tc/comedian.ipl and used actress and comedian files that were smaller than the complete ones I found on the internet.

Here's a screen-scrape of the tail end of a run.

 236 BRIDGET FONDA
 237 ROSANNA ARQUETTE
 238 TIA CARRERE
 239 FAIRUZA BALK
 240 JENNIE GARTH
 241 ANDREA PARKER
 242 JULIETTE BINOCHE
 243 SHAWNEE SMITH
 244 KELLY ROWAN
 245 ELIZABETH BERKLEY
 246 MAURA TIERNEY
 247 EMILY VANCAMP
 248 CARRIE FISHER
 249 GLENN CLOSE
 250 DEBRA WINGER

analyzing ...

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bingo!

comedienne's name begins w/ CHER and ends w/ TERI
actress' name begins w/ TERI and ends w/ CHER

please visit http://primepuzzle.com/tc/comedian.html





/* 1 announce, declare, initialize
/* 2 loop on the two input files
/* 3 initialize
/* 4,5 read a file, complain and exit on error
/* 6 locate first "* " and " (" in file, announce and wait for key strike
/* 7 loop while there's anything left in file
/* 8,9 copy stuff between * and ( to work area
/* 10 nul terminate work area, show progress, copy work area to another work area 
/* 11,12,13 put first four characters in either first comedian or first actress array
/* 14 copy work area to another work area, find length of string, copy last four characters to beginning of string, nul terminate
/* 15,16,17 put last four characters into either last comedian or last actress array
/* 18 bump pointer (subscript) used by first / last comedian / actress arrays, remove processed name from scratch array, locate next "* "
/* 19,20,21 locate next " (", if any
/* 22,23,24 establish number of comedians or actresses 
/* 25 adjust number of comedians / actresses (divide by 4), announce beginning of analysis phase, wait for key strike
/* 26 loop on comedians
/* 27,28,29 show progress, print new line every 10
/* 30 loop on actresses
/* 31 if first four characters of comedian's name equal last four characters of actress' name
/* 32 if first four characters of actress' name equal last four characters of comedian's name
/* 33 announce success! etc. and exit