On Sat, 8 Jun 2002, Sean O'Rourke wrote: > > > # Secondly, $" & $& produces null when $& is a capital letter, so > > # the > > Once again, the fact that only the first letter may be capital came to > my rescue. > > Actually, there's one more bug as well here. If any of the tests had > contained a '.' in the middle of a word (allowed by the rules, I think), > "s/[^. ]+ */.../" would have stopped too soon. Taking the rules to be > defined operationally by the tests rather than formally by the web-page > saved me in quite a number of ways.
No, the rules didn't allow a period to occur within the word, so you're safe on that one. But I always thought the aim was to solve the problem, rather than merely to pass the tests. -- 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
