OK, I was going thru a ROM dump last week, and text I was interested in was interlaced between the high and low ROMS. Naturally, I thought perl would be ideal to straighten this mess out. The resulting program I wrote felt too long. So, without further ado, your golf course today is to take 2 strings: 
Ti sats.
hsi  et

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... and produce a single string from them: 
This is a test.

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Extra credit: Make the routine split the single string into substrings that're an arbitrary length, and spit them out on separate lines, ie: the big string is really a bunch of strings of "x" bytes.

I promise this ain't homework, even tho it really looks like it by now. :o)

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In reply to (golf) Interlaced Strings by yakko

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