Hi Monks,
Recently to pass some time, my friend and i organized a game of golf.
The problem which we set out to solve, was to write a script which takes two arguments (grid coordinates starting from bottom left) and then creates the following patterns.
Pattern created with the coordinates 5,5: 
444444444
433333334
432222234
432111234
432101234
432111234
432222234
433333334
444444444

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Pattern created with the coordinates 2,3: 
666666667
555555567
444444567
333334567
222234567
111234567
101234567
111234567
222234567

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etc.
My solution to this problem was: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
for($y=9;$y>0;$y--){print abs$ARGV[1]-$y>abs$ARGV[0]-$_?abs$ARGV[1]-$y
+:abs($ARGV[0]-$_)for(1..9);print"\n"}

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However i assume a lot of people could do it in a lot less so if anyone is interested in passing a little bit of time, i would love to see some better solutions :)

Neil Archibald
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In reply to ASCII Pattern - Golf by devslashneil

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