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Jon Bentley, in his book Programming Pearls (Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts: 1986) had a section devoted to almost exactly this problem. Translating his programs (in a mix of awk and C) into Perl should be easy. Try the Programming Pearls web site].

I'll leave it as an exercise.

emc

" When in doubt, use brute force." — Ken Thompson
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