On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 11:05:29AM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> BTW, I was blown away by Ton using the 'x' modifier.
> Never in my wildest dreams could I have imagined that
> this modifier would have been useful in golf!
I used /x in a solution to the 4 Consecutive Letters challenge on FWP in
August 2000:
perl -ne'for$i(97..119){print,last if/@{[map chr,$i..$i+3]}/x}'
(Tim Ayers then reduced this to:
perl -ne'@a=a..z;for$i(0..22){print,last if/@a[$i..$i+3]/x}'
)
The challenge was to find words which contain four consecutive letters as
they appear in the alphabet, i.e. understudy contains rstu.
Ronald
