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in thread Five Ways to Reverse a String of Words (C#, Perl 5, Perl 6, Ruby, Haskell)

Interesting... It works fine in EcmaScript. Or at least Jscript. :-)
So how about

" one two three four ".split(/ +/).reverse().join(" ")
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Re^5: Five Ways to Reverse a String of Words (C#, Perl 5, Perl6, Ruby, Haskell)
by stvn (Monsignor) on Dec 12, 2006 at 16:09 UTC

    Yup, that one works. Boring, but it works ;)

    -stvn
Re^5: Five Ways to Reverse a String of Words (C#, Perl 5, Perl6, Ruby, Haskell)
by AltBlue (Chaplain) on Dec 14, 2006 at 15:04 UTC
    Trimming the string is still necessary in order to comply with the specs. Yes, very boring ;-)
    function reverseWords(str) { return str.replace(/^\s+/,'').replace(/\s+$/,'').split(/\s+/).revers +e().join(' '); };