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From:
Jason Henry Parker
Date:
January 29, 2002 04:14
Subject:
Re: even.pl solutions
Message ID:
87wuy14anm.fsf@freezer.home
Matthew Byng-Maddick <fwp@lists.colondot.net> writes:
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:14:00PM -0500, Keith C. Ivey wrote:
> > But I was glad to see in the results several versions (by me
> > and others) of the lovely
> > -ln 1&($.|y|o|||y|e|||y|u|||y|a|||y|i|||y|y|||y|||c)||print
> Indeed, I thought that was very beautiful when I discovered it.
Hmm. I tend to leave the regex-like operators delimited by slashes,
so I didn't get to appreciate the true beauty of this myself (I'm sure
I wrote exactly that pretty early on).
> It just didn't occur to me to use the $_ x=... trick, by which I'm
> still stunned.
I found it by going back through the analyses of the previous
tournament's winners. After that, the score dropped from the mid-80s
to 77 in about a day. The other key was using a /./g match on
"aeiouy".
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