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Cool. It's also a lot faster than my version.

[rml@box current]$ time perl BrowserUK.pl sample-input.txt
2
2002
1009

real    0m0.006s
user    0m0.002s
sys    0m0.004s
[rml@box current]$ time perl rml.pl sample-input.txt
2
1009
2002

real    0m0.028s
user    0m0.023s
sys    0m0.003s

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Re^3: Perl Solution to Spotify Programming Puzzle
by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 26, 2011 at 00:08 UTC
    Cool. It's also a lot faster than my version.

    Yes. But unfortunately, fatally flawed.

    I should never try to assess the inherent complexity of a task when approaching my personal shutdown time :) Nor take example solutions as sufficient tests.

    That said, the fix to the approach doesn't seem to be too complicated, though I haven't coded it yet, so that thought might come back to bite me. Maybe I'll get to it once I cleared the non-optional tasks of my day.

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