On Dec 14, Ilmari Karonen said:
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>On Thu, 13 Dec 2001, Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan wrote:
>> On Dec 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
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>> >what is the longest piece of perl code $c which is "perl -c" correct with
>> >the requirement that each character in $c is ord-less than the next one. ie
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>> !&'()*+-.0123456789<=>@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}
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>> Note the leading space. I think that's as good as you'll get.
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>I think I can do better, quite easily:
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>#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|}~
We were explicitly asked to ignore #.
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** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.
