I'm very new to golf and don't know the ground rules and was amazed by hans_moleman's solution and simply blown away by japhy's evolution, but.... (/me hear's the groans)...trying japhy's final answer on my win32 (that has -w permenantly enabled) system I got: 

C:\test>185653 185653.pl
16Use of uninitialized value in print at C:\test\185653.pl line 1.

C:\test>

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Ignoring the warning which I could turn off, I noticed that it reports its own length (under win32 etc. etc) as 16!

So, I played and came up with this, which (on my Wi...) does a little better and (visually at least :) complies with the 'rules'

(I see a newline after the number :),

and beats japhy's by 3!...and runs with -w and no errors! 

C:\test>185649 185649.pl
13
C:\test>

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And the code 

C:\test>type 185649.pl
print-s pop

C:\test>

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As an aside, in a unicode world, maybe the requirements should have been "number of bytes"?

In reply to Re: Re: Golfing on a quiet Friday afternoon... by BrowserUk
in thread Golfing on a quiet Friday afternoon... by hans_moleman

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