Golf challenge: decode CETI message

2002-01-09 Thread Patrick Gaskill
There's an article about CETI's next message into space http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=02/01/08/231247mode=nested and CETI is providing the message in ASCII 1's and 0's (with example noise added) to be decoded for our own amusement. Of course, I wrote a Perl script to do this for me. Of

Re: Interactive golf hole

2002-01-09 Thread Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes) wrote: Ronald J Kimball [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Here's my current solution, at 64: -pl $_=join':',grep defined,/([^]*)(?![^\s#])|([^\s#]+)|#.*/g Originally I had $_.0 instead of defined, but I realized that that skips

Re: Golf challenge: decode CETI message

2002-01-09 Thread Keith C. Ivey
Patrick Gaskill [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My attempt, at 79 characters: $\=$/;undef$/;$_=;s/.{70}//s;tr,01\n,\x00\xff,d; print$1while/(.{1,127})\n?/g; Are we doing this without command-line switches? This should do the same in 65 characters:

Re: Possible fwp golf game

2002-01-09 Thread Andrew . Savige
Thanks everybody for the feedback. Unless there are strong objections, I plan to run the game between: Thu 24 Jan-Tue 29 Jan, 2002 More details closer to game start time. /-\ndrew