Well, since my last golf game was so well received, I decided to add some more functionality to my little coin-flipping code, and count the number of times we flip heads in a row, as well as count the number of heads total.

Without further discussion, here is the code base that I came up with:
-w;
use strict;

my @flip = ('H','T');
my @results;
my @heads;

for (1..200) {
    push(@results,$flip[rand(2)]);
}

my $head_count;


foreach (@results) 
{
    if ($_ =~/H/) 
    {
        print $_;
        $head_count++;
    }

    else 
    {
        print " ";
        push(@heads,$head_count) if ($head_count != 0);
        $head_count= 0;
    }
}

$head_count = 0;
print "\n\n";
foreach (@heads) 
{
    $head_count += $_;
}
print "The tally of heads (in a row) looks like:\n";
print join('|',@heads);
print "\n";
print "The number of heads total is:\n";
print $head_count;

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Here is some sample output from a coworker's WinXP box (using ActivePerl 522):
HHHHH H HH H   H H    H H    H    H    H    HH    H HH  H     H H     
+  HHHH H H H HHHHHH HH HHHHH  H   HHH HHHHHH H HHH   H HH HH         
+  H H    H HHHH HH HH H          H HH    H H HH HHH H   HH  H

The tally of heads (in a row) looks like:
5|1|2|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|1|2|1|2|1|1|1|4|1|1|1|6|2|5|1|3|6|1|3|1|2|2|1|1|1|
+4|2|2|1|1|2|1|1|2|3|1|2
The number of heads total is:
88

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My code seems somewhat bloated, and I know it can be golfed some, but I'm not really a regex wiz yet, so this code is about as good as I'm going to get.

Let the games begin!

Theodore Charles III
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In reply to YAGG (Yet Another Golf Game) by Necos

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