Hi folks, Just a word to mention this: Perl Golf is indeed advertised in perlfaq!!
$ perldoc -q consec
Found in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/pod/perlfaq4.pod
How do I remove consecutive pairs of characters?
To turn ""abbcccd"" into ""abccd"":
s/(.)\1/$1/g; # add /s to include newlines
Here's a solution that turns "abbcccd" to "abcd":
y///cs; # y == tr, but shorter :-)
Look at the last line! :-)
Jerome
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