Jeff 'Japhy' Pinyan wrote: > > 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).
>From the command line you can write it this way: perl -MPOSIX -leprint~~strtol+pop,36 You don't need the quotes because there is no whitespace so you get 31 strokes. John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
