What's really stumping me is that there has to be a shorter solution for wc.pl (mine is 23), but I haven't been able to get past the need for printf (at least, not for a shorter solution). Has anyone managed to do it without it? I also vote that we close this soon and unveil the winners. I have a life to get on with. -b > -----Original Message----- > From: Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan [mailto:jeffp@crusoe.net] > Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 6:51 PM > To: fwp@perl.org > Subject: Re: The Santa Claus Golf Apocalypse > > > Geez, I have three different solutions for tail.pl, ALL the same length > (19 chars). Has someone gotten below 19? > > -- > Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ > RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ > ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** > >Thread Previous | Thread Next