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Re: Re: Triangle Golf

by petral (Curate)
on Apr 25, 2001 at 21:15 UTC ( [id://75542]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Triangle Golf
in thread Triangle Golf

Here's some variations on MeowChow's idea above:
a perfectly respactable program, about 140 chars (after the #!.../):
#!/usr/local/bin/perl -ln0777 $\ =' '; $c = 0; s/^\s+//; s/\s+/ /gs; while ( s/(.{$c,}?. |.+$)// ) { print " " x (40 - ($c = 1 + length $1) / 2), $1 }
> triangle.pl a.txt w.txt
a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a The same principle applies to any text file, basically splitting words only on spaces or new lines
a one-liner, 74 chars (+6 extra flag chars):
> perl -ln0777we '$c=0;s/\s+/ /sg;print" "x(40-($c=length$1)/2),$1 whi +le s/(.{$c,}?. |.+$)//' a.txt w.txt a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a The same principle applies to any text file, basically splitting words only on spaces or new lines
and pretty well golfed, 66 chars (+6 extra flag chars):
> perl -ln0777e's/\s+/ /sg;print$"x(40-($c=length$&)/2),$&while s/.{0$ +c,}?. |.+$//' a.txt w.txt a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a The same principle applies to any text file, basically splitting words only on spaces or new lines > perl -ln0777e's/\s+/ /sg;print$"x(40-($c=length$&)/2),$&while s/.{0$ +c,}?. |.+$//' w.txt a.txt The same principle applies to any text file, basically splitting words only on spaces or new lines a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
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Re: Re: Re: Triangle Golf
by MeowChow (Vicar) on Apr 25, 2001 at 22:10 UTC
    Very nice paring down, I especially like the conversion from a greedy expression to the minimal one you use, in order to avoid defining $c. Further reduction gives:
    perl -ln0e's/\s+/ /g;print$"x(40-($c=length$&)/2),$&while/.{0$c,}? |.* +/g' ...
    61 chars of code plus 3 modifier chars.
       MeowChow                                   
                   s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print
      Much cleaner! Putting the increment back in and not skipping a line at the end yields a "more intresting"* result (63 chars):
      perl -ln0e's/\s+/ /g;print$"x(40-($c=2+length$&)/2),$&while/.{0$c,}? | +.+/g' a.txt w.txt a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a The same principle applies to any text file, basically splitting words only on spaces or new lines perl -ln0e's/\s+/ /g;print$"x(40-($c=2+length$&)/2),$&while/.{0$c,}? | +.+/g' w.txt a.txt The same principle applies to any text file, basically splitting words only on spaces or new lines a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a a
      (I know, I know. I'm the only one who could possibly still be interested at this point.)

      * update "more interesting" meaning more <|triangular|>  (than the original challenge).

      And, moving even deeper into 'useless use of code in void context':
      print($"x(40-($c=2+length$&)/2),$&),$c*=($c<80)while...
      will make triangles of files of any length (a step towards automated obfusification?).

      p

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