On Sun, 10 Mar 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> 3) Be pragmatic. Don't get too carried away with fanciful solutions.
>
> Perhaps, Eugene and Stephen Turner fell into this trap in the
> secret number game, where they both pursued deliciously complex
> variations involving the (${}) construct in preference to simpler
> more pragmatic solutions involving s///eg.
>
Well, I don't know. I think /..(?{ })/ is quite efficient. It yields a
51-stroke solution with the *1.11%10 trick.
But you may be right. Although I did try other approaches, this was the
first thing I thought of.
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
