> Find the shortest glob expression ...

So what's your metric for "shortest"?

String length doesn't equal compression. 

use v5.12;
use warnings;
use Data::Dump;
use Test::More;


test (
      [ <{b,{c,d}e}> ],
      [ <{b,ce,de}> ],
     );

test (
      [ <{c,d}e> ],
      [ <{ce,de}> ],
     );



sub test {
    my @g = @_;
    for my $i (0..$#g) {
        for my $j ($i+1..$#g) {
            is_deeply($g[$i],$g[$j],"$i,$j");
        }
    }
    ddx @g;
}


done_testing;

[download]

ok 1 - 0,1
# challenge_choroba_globs.pl:26: (["b", "ce", "de"], ["b", "ce", "de"]
+)
ok 2 - 0,1
# challenge_choroba_globs.pl:26: (["ce", "de"], ["ce", "de"])
1..2

[download]

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
Wikisyntax for the Monastery

In reply to Re: Challenge: Generate a glob patterns from a word list by LanX
in thread Challenge: Generate a glob patterns from a word list by choroba

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