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From:
Andrew.Savige
Date:
February 16, 2002 01:15
Subject:
Re: TPR0 Final Results
Message ID:
694BB7191495D51183A9005004C0B05452DC16@ir-exchange-srv.ir.com.au
Andrew Savige wrote:
> #!/usr/bin/perl -l
> use POSIX;print strtol pop,36
>
> I think this should work, but it prints a spurious trailing zero.
Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> RTFM.
>
> strtol String to (long) integer translation. Returns the
> parsed number and the number of characters in the
> unparsed portion of the string
In retrospect, I am astonished that I did not go to the trouble
of 'perldoc POSIX' at any time. I knew I was being lazy, but that
is taking laziness to new heights! Maybe I was pre-occupied with
trying to win a T-shirt for the weirdest/wackiest entry.
I vaguely knew about strtol from ANSI C and just tried it and it
seemed to work as I expected. I spent all of 10 minutes on my
33-stroke solution (my previous best being 7918). At that point,
I remember feeling dirty to the point of being physically sick.
I thought about the true golf artists, like Spiff and Rick, toiling
to produce beautiful and elegant 46/47 stroke solutions and I go
ahead of them with this rubbish in 10 minutes. Like Bart, I felt
utterly bored and didn't spend any more time on strtol after that
(except to write a weird strtol-based 'Perl-is-C;C-is-Perl' entry).
`/anick-Zen-like looking inside myself, I know I lost to all those
golfers producing those brilliant 46/47-stroke solutions. I think
TPR should send Spiff a T-shirt and a cap; he really earned it.
/-\ndrew
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