On Dec 14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:

>what is the longest piece of perl code $c which is "perl -c" correct with
>the requirement that each character in $c is ord-less than the next one.  ie

> &'()-.0123456789>ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}

 !&'()*+-.0123456789<=>@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ^_abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{}

Note the leading space.  I think that's as good as you'll get.

>What's the most useful piece of code you can write with this restriction?

Hah.

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Jeff "japhy" Pinyan      [EMAIL PROTECTED]      http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
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** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
<stu> what does y/// stand for?  <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course.


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