Thanks for the comments.

I found the comments about shielding $/ to be interesting. Presumably, the code is made to be standalone, or else all of the solutions should have wrapped and closed all of their variables in namespaces and functions less the first few lines of the PerlBuzz solution open the (eek) dangers of global variables! 
use warnings;
use strict;

my %averages;

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On another note, I feel bad about including the obfuse looking bits near the top (I assure you they were not intentionally so), since the latter half seems to have gone unnoticed!

That is, what about *challenging* parsing. Surely the people at scriptnet seem to have omitted any challening problems...

Here's a question: are there any really challenging parsing problems out there?

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