in reply to (Golf) Rangify Array

From List-to-Range generation... oh, and {$a-$b} sorts the same way that {$a<=>$b} does, in two fewer characters. 
# 27 * 3 - 1 = 80 chars
sub num2range {
#23456789012345678901234567
my$x=join',',sort{$a-$b}@_;
$x=~s/(?<!\d)(\d+)(?:,((??{
$++1})))+(?!\d)/$1-$+/g;$x
}

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Re: Re: (Golf) Rangify Array
by kilinrax (Deacon) on Sep 27, 2001 at 21:00 UTC
    You don't need to make that a non-capturing parenthesis, nor resort to lookahead/lookbehind trickery; a simple word boundary will do. Very nice trick with $+, though ;) 
    # 27 + 40 + 2 = 69 dude!
sub num2range {
#234567890123456789012345678901234567890 
my$x=join',',sort{$a-$b}@_; 
$x=~s/\b(\d+)(,((??{$++1})))+\b/$1-$+/g; 
$x 
}

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[d/l]
      Hmm, good point. The capturing parens are fine. The reason I had look-ahead/behind was because I was looking at a larger problem which doesn't actually exist since we're dealing with numbers. Good move.

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