Ok, the tournament's over and we all can continue our lives. :) Congrats to the winners and all the other superb and ingenious entries!
Although my 98 strokes are quite a lot, even for a beginner, I see that I had the right ideas in many cases (e.g., bit ops in even.pl), so I don't feel too ashamed. Once you know some tricks of the trade, I guess, you can save *big* (or can't you?). But after scouring the perldocs and being baffled about the other solutions, some questions still remain: * Where is the empty searchlist behaviour with the 'c' switch of the y/// operator documented (using y///c to count characters)? * Concerning this answer from Ronald Kimball to my question about the counting the space in front of the hash-bang command line switches: "If you can get the command line switches to work *without* that space character, then you don't have to pay for it." How's that possible? * How sick do you have to be to come up with those <50 stroke solutions for even.pl? :) Cheers, Joerg
