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Re: Golf: Embedded In Order

by japhy (Canon)
on Apr 27, 2001 at 18:01 UTC ( [id://76095]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Golf: Embedded In Order

Here's mine. It's très cool. 
# 37 chars (between the {...})
sub seq{shift=~join'.*',map"\Q$_",split//,pop}

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Update -- after seeing chipmunk's code, which beats mine, I offer one minor adjustment: 
sub seq{($t=pop)=~s/./$&.*/sg;pop=~/$t/s}

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Although, should the $t by my()ed? I'm all for strict-compliant golf. Anyway, I changed the @_ access to pop, and added a needed /s modifier to both regexes. It makes it longer than chipmunk's, but doesn't break on cases involving newlines.

japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker

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Re: Re: Golf: Embedded In Order
by chipmunk (Parson) on Apr 30, 2001 at 09:08 UTC
    Since the goal of Perl Golf is to make the code as short as possible, it seems to me that making the code strict-compliant is a waste of characters. Especially since one could just do something like: 
    sub seq{
($~=pop)=~s/./$&.*/sg;pop=~/$~/s
}

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    :)

    I do try to avoid warnings in my Golf solutions, though.

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Re: Re: Golf: Embedded In Order
by petral (Curate) on May 26, 2001 at 01:41 UTC
    But you don't need the $t! 27 chars:
    seq{shift=~join".*",split//,pop}

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    Or 25 using /./g:
    seq{shift=~join".*",pop=~/./g}

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    Or 33 with pathological protection:
    seq{shift=~join"\E.*\Q","",pop=~/./gs}

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