Re: [Boston.pm] Can you better this?

2005-05-12 Thread Duane Bronson
I second that - Damnx2; I think it's worth mentioning the magic of CPAN. I am told that CPAN can even cure cancer if you know what to search for. perl -le 'use Algorithm::Permute; my @array = (1..5);Algorithm::Permute::permute { print @array } @array;' Sorry, my golf skills aren't refined,

Re: [Boston.pm] Can you better this?

2005-05-11 Thread Aaron Sherman
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 15:24, Aaron Sherman wrote: This smells like homework, but *shrug* Then my mailer decided to play the role of the proverbial dog and eat said homework ;-) If it does so again, I'll just leave well-enough alone. On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 14:59, John Tsangaris wrote: I was

Re: [Boston.pm] Can you better this?

2005-05-11 Thread Ben Tilly
On 5/11/05, John Tsangaris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was asked to provide the 73 occurrence of a sequence of numbers, with the numbers 12345. Each number can be used only once, and there are a possible 120 combinations. I was called by a client to figure this out for them, since one of

Re: [Boston.pm] Can you better this?

2005-05-11 Thread Sean Quinlan
On Wed, 2005-05-11 at 13:11 -0700, Ben Tilly wrote: Do I smell golf? perl -le 'map/(.).*\1/||print,glob{1,2,3,4,5}x5' Nice! I was just playing with a map version trying to see how to shorten my regex. perl -e 'map {print$_,\nif/[1-5]{5}/! /([1-5]).*\1/} (12345..54321)' -- Sean Quinlan