Hi all. I was trying a question in SPOJ. Let me explain the question first. The input will be a single line containing capital and small letters. Lets assume the following:
Capital Letters-Opcode
Small Letters-Operands
In AbcdEf,
A is an opcode. The operands of A are b,c and d. Similarly, E is an opcode and its operands are f. The opcodes must be moved to the closest upper index that is a multiple of 4.

So, AbcD must be Abc-D, where '-' means a blank (output is 1).
Similarly, ABC must be A---B---C, so the output is 6.
Similarly, AbcdeF must be Abcde---F, so the output is 3.
The task is, to find the minimum number of '-'s that are needed to be inserted to align the Opcodes accordingly.

Here is my solution to this task:
RESOLVED
It is 42 chars long and its the second shortest. The first shortest is 39 chars long. Can u pls try to make it shorter?

Edit: http://www.spoj.pl/problems/NOP/
Edit2: Corrected a small typo. (thanks to Ken)

In reply to Code Shortening (golf) [RESOLVED] by Young Monk

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