Hi Monks,
I've written a small program to flip a coin, the format of the output (if the user cared to see it) is below.
I've got two other things i want to do, though 1 is somewhat of a segway into the other.
 
A) Keep track of the length of the current runs of heads and tails, resetting them to 0 when appropriate. Display them as you go along.

B) Find the length of the longest run of heads and the longest run of tails.
I guess my question is how do I go about tracking/counting the runs in the string? I think if I can do that I can get the counter figured out
Thanks much,
 
 
".........T T H H H H T H H H H H H T H T..........."
#!/usr/local/bin/perl

while () {

my $random = int( rand(2));
my $flip;
if ($random == 0) {
$flip = "H";
}
if ($random == 1) {
$flip = "T";
}
print "$flip\ ";

}

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