On Dec 17, Bob Showalter said: >Here's what I came up with. I wonder if this can be made shorter: > > while ($f = shift @list) { > print $f; > last unless @list; > print(','), next unless $list[0] == ++$f; > print "-"; > shift @list while @list > 1 && $list[1] == ++$f; > }
It certainly puts my C-like code to shame. It's very nice. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]