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Here are the winning holes from the recent nigh-week-long golf competition on the "Fun With Perl" mailing list:

Print the first 10 lines of a file.
```
#!/usr/bin/perl -p
11..exit
[download]
```

Print the last 10 lines of a file.

#!/usr/bin/perl
print+(<>)[-10..-1]
[download]

Print a file in reverse.

#!/usr/bin/perl -p
$\=$_.$\}{
[download]

Print the middle line (or two) of a file.

#!/usr/bin/perl -p0
$_=$1while/.^(.+)^/sm
[download]

Print the line count of a file, zero-padded, right-aligned.
```
#!/usr/bin/perl
printf"%010d\n",$.,<>
[download]
```

These are the shortest (or one of those shortest) for each of the five holes. A full list of entries can be found at my web site, and at http://archive.develooper.com/fwp@perl.org/.

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Jeff[japhy]Pinyan: Perl, regex, and perl hacker.
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