On Feb 15, Dave Hoover said: >Nine players ended up with the winning 33 stroke solution, but Tim >submitted it first. Unfortunately, this hole had a solution that >was not very golfish, but did reward those willing to dig through >some documentation on the core Perl modules. Here is the winning >solution: > >#!perl -l >use POSIX;print~~strtol pop,36
-l -MPOSIX print~~strtol pop,36 Heh, that's 31. Probably what John Krahn had (since he boasted a similar method that cut out 2 chars). -- 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. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ]
