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The squished version is really cool :) It looks I got my solution!

Many thanks ikegami!

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Re^4: A way to avoid repeated conditional loops
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Aug 25, 2011 at 17:45 UTC
    That version doesn't do anything until it reaches the first alpha. Is that really what you want?
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      You're right. Was naming the first block of code you wrote as "the squished version". Of course it was not :)

      Actually I've been realizing that there's no way other than using either a regex to test on the evaluated current line or a flag variable. At this point it seems to me the second approach might be the most efficient in computational terms. Many thanks for your help :)

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