Stephen Turner wrote:
>
> Some Perl features I noticed while playing this game. Maybe someone would
> be kind enough to explain them.
>
> 4) I had to waste a character by using /..(?{CODE})\b/ instead of
> /..(?{CODE}$/. Actually, I do understand this. The regex optimiser is too
> smart, and only looks at the end of the string when it sees the $, but
> thankfully it's not smart enough only to look near word boundaries even when
> there's a \b in there.
Check out Eugene's: /..(?{CODE})^/
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Rick Klement
