On Thu, May 05, 2005 at 03:24:22PM +0100, José Castro wrote:
So suppose you want a regular expression to match at least one of
three words:
/word1|word2|word3/
What solution would you use if you wanted at least _two_ of those
three words?
Isn't there a neater (and probably twisted, of
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:56:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I recently came across this impenetrable Wall code:
last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/'$1'ge$1'$1'lt$2'
That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-)
-- Larry Wall in [EMAIL PROTECTED]
What on earth
Am Don, 2002-02-14 um 17.18 schrieb Daniel R. Allen:
finding the longest common (consecutive) substring
Here is a very straightforward approach (C-ish). All found substrings
are saved in a hash (this part could be optimized/replaced easily)...
sub common($$) {
my($x, $y) = @_;
my
Am Son, 2002-01-27 um 18.34 schrieb Bill -OSX- Jones:
Isn't there another var that is the same as STDERR ?
If you use English; you can use $OS_ERROR or $ERRNO. They will be
the same as $!.
-Sven
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:36:38PM +0100, Bart Lateur wrote:
On Thu, 13 Dec 2001 14:29:14 +0100, Kim Schulz wrote:
How short kan you make a program (oneliner?) that:
* checks if a password is 5 characters long or more
* checks if the password contains at least 3 alpha chars (a-zA-Z)
* checks
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 03:01:43PM +, Mohit Agarwal wrote:
On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 02:49:05PM +0100, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
y/A-Za-z/A-Za-z/2y/0-9/0-9/1
or the shorter
$a=$_;y/A-Za-z//2y/0-9//1
that will mungle the password in $_ but keep a good copy in $a.
Why
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:43:14AM +0100, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:32:49AM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 03:30:07AM +0100, Bart Lateur wrote:
I often use tri-state flags, with possible value true (1), false (0), or
undetermined (undef
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 04:56:34AM -0500, Michael G Schwern wrote:
On Wed, Dec 05, 2001 at 10:43:14AM +0100, Sven Neuhaus wrote:
Looks like ~ doesn't trigger a warning on undef.
So
~$a ? $a ? 3 : 2 : 1
will yield 3 for true, 2 for false, 1 for undef.
That's no good, repetition
On Wed, Aug 22, 2001 at 10:15:46AM +0100, Ian Phillipps wrote:
What *is* the world's shortest JAPH, anyway? I would be disappointed if
it were just 'print '
Depends on how much you want to cheat (we've had this discussion
before). If you have netcat installed as 'nc' in your path,
you can
