On Mon, 8 Apr 2002, Keith C. Ivey wrote:
>
> Hey, at least you figured out the trick of leaving the join out
> of the hash key. I'd have broken 70 with that. Looks like
> MeowChow might have discovered it accidentally by leaving out
> the space between join and _ in the 68.43 solution.
>
That's what happened to me! At first I tried $s{sort/./g}, knowing that you
could use a list within the hash key, but of course it doesn't work. So then
I moved to $s{join 1,sort/./g}, but quickly discovered that you could safely
leave out the space. You'll see that my early solutions (107.34, 102.38)
use this $s{join1,sort/./g}. So imagine my surprise when I discovered that I
was producing hash keys like "join1dorw" for "word"! Who would have guessed
that, just by looking at the expression?
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