samtregar,
I was discussing this earlier in the CB. This is the first year perl has been included in the competition so perhaps the problems are a bit more challenging in the other scripting languages.

The only problem I have entered so far is the first event in the advanced category. I asked for clarification on the following words:

The response I got was along the lines of - wouldn't would be considered 8 characters, we thought we had eliminated all words with spaces so not sure how war game was missed and woolen& looks like an error with the list.

This told me they were not placed there intentionally to make the task more difficult. I needed to find some way of making it a bit more challenging so my solution is only 4 lines of code (not golfed) and is probably one of the fastest solutions submitted. Unfortunately, I suspect I will be disqualified. I am not entering any more events until I find out for sure.

Cheers - L~R

In reply to Re^2: 2008 Winter Scripting Games have begun by Limbic~Region
in thread 2008 Winter Scripting Games have begun by sg

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