Matthew Byng-Maddick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:14:00PM -0500, Keith C. Ivey wrote: > > But I was glad to see in the results several versions (by me > > and others) of the lovely > > -ln 1&($.|y|o|||y|e|||y|u|||y|a|||y|i|||y|y|||y|||c)||print > Indeed, I thought that was very beautiful when I discovered it.
Hmm. I tend to leave the regex-like operators delimited by slashes, so I didn't get to appreciate the true beauty of this myself (I'm sure I wrote exactly that pretty early on). > It just didn't occur to me to use the $_ x=... trick, by which I'm > still stunned. I found it by going back through the analyses of the previous tournament's winners. After that, the score dropped from the mid-80s to 77 in about a day. The other key was using a /./g match on "aeiouy". -- ||----|---|------------|--|-------|------|-----------|-#---|-|--|------|| | The way you tell your story http://linux.org.au/conf/ | | With no tears for yourself [EMAIL PROTECTED] | ||--|--------|--------------|----|-------------|------|---------|-----|-|
