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> Apologies if I have missed any other high-flying novices; > if you did well and this is your first ever golf game, > please let the list know. Me! It's my first Perl Golf Golf game... and I need to avoid missing some simplier solutions. In particular, the best "wc.pl" solution: #!/usr/bin/perl printf"%.10d",$.,<> I thought Perl would flatten the arguments Left to Right -but did I try? No, unfortunately not, and my assumption was wrong. It's all about looking outside of the solution, trying something else... I thought everyone else was cheating, since my first submissions totalled 102 characters (I cheated by omitting the \n from wc.pl, so Santa corrected it to 104). The only other scores were 103 and 106, so I thought I'd stand a chance :P I have to agree about Perl Golf competitions being evil when it comes to getting on with Real Life (TM) though. Perl Golf is far more fun than Calculas and my other University subjects. Not having Perl Golf championships too frequently makes the game more exciting. We should wait at least 2 months before the next one, and we need to choose who's leading it. I have some suggestions for (more difficult) challenges, for whoever will be commanding the next course. Take care all, Jonathan Paton PS: Santa should be a player next round :) ________________________________________________________________ Nokia 5510 looks weird sounds great. Go to http://uk.promotions.yahoo.com/nokia/ discover and win it! The competition ends 16 th of December 2001.Thread Previous | Thread Next