On Mon, Dec 03, 2001 at 12:59:05PM -0800, Brad Greenlee wrote: > Here's a question of fair play: does each program have to work for any given > text file, or is it ok if it just works on the test cases presented by > tsanta? I can shorten my mid.pl by one stroke, and it still passes all the > tests, but it will eventually fail when the file reaches a certain size. I did the same. The rule says that if it passes tsanta.pl, it's okay. However, I have to admit that it's crass cheating, and would accept any decision of not allowing this particular trick. (one solution would be to modify tsanta.pl with a text file of, say, 42 lines, which would break our scheme) Joy, `/anick -- ($_,@.)=split m<[\d=[\]]>,"Y..0e0t0 =a0n0o0t0h0e0r= [P0e0r0l] " . "0h0a0c0k0e0r"; y|. |. |s ; for $0(1..23) { $_ .='.' x s| (.)[.] $|$ +. shift@ .|ex|| '.' } ;print;Thread Previous | Thread Next