Re: Re: New golf game (for the extremely bored)

Can someone explain that "a..gr" thing to me please?

I'm baffled.
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Re: New golf game (for the extremely bored) by ejf (Hermit) on Feb 09, 2002 at 13:16 UTC
>Can someone explain that "a..gr" thing to me please? Same as 1..200, really ;) Basically you just use letters instead of numbers. a..z yields the 26 characters of the alphabet, a..az yields those and another 26 prefixed with a a..bz yields those and another 26 prefixed with b and so on. Same system, more "numbers" ... Incidentally a..gr yields 7*26 + 18 "numbers". update : as crazyinsomniac pointed out, the range-operator is discussed in more detail in perlman:perlop.	[reply]

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Re: New golf game (for the extremely bored)
by ejf (Hermit) on Feb 09, 2002 at 13:16 UTC

Same as 1..200, really ;)

Basically you just use letters instead of numbers.

a..z yields the 26 characters of the alphabet,
a..az yields those and another 26 prefixed with a
a..bz yields those and another 26 prefixed with b
and so on. Same system, more "numbers" ...

Incidentally a..gr yields 7*26 + 18 "numbers".

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