Unable to change pos in regex match

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Anderson
I'm working on code to solder the Project Euler problem #8. This is the one where you have to find the greatest product of any five digits found in order in a one thousand digit number. It sort of worked briefly. This version worked(I had line 25 uncommented): https://github.com/wackyvorlon/mar

Re: Unable to change pos in regex match

2012-08-14 Thread Jim Gibson
On Aug 14, 2012, at 2:57 PM, Paul Anderson wrote: > I'm working on code to solder the Project Euler problem #8. This is the one > where you have to find the greatest product of any five digits found in order > in a one thousand digit number. It sort of worked briefly. This version > worked(I h

Re: Unable to change pos in regex match

2012-08-14 Thread Paul Anderson
Well, now I feel sufficiently stupid:) Thanks! On 2012-08-14, at 6:19 PM, Jim Gibson wrote: > >> > > Have you tried printing out the values of ($1,$2,$3,$4,$5), $cur, and pos > $numb for each iteration? I think you will find it most informative to do so. > > Hint: you should be using a whil

Re: Unable to change pos in regex match

2012-08-15 Thread John W. Krahn
Paul Anderson wrote: [ snip ] #!/usr/bin/myperl -w # euler8.pl --- Euler Problem 8 # Author: Paul Anderson # Created: 14 Aug 2012 # Version: 0.01 use warnings; use diagnostics; use 5.16.0; #use strict; no strict; # The number. $numb="7316717653133062491922511967442657474235534919493496983