At 15:32 -0400 6/28/99, John Porter wrote: > Btw, this looks like homework. Gaah! You mean like... school? No, these come up at work ;) Besides... along with the original programmer's first and second attempts, I included my solution in the original posting :-) (I apologize for my ugly formatting, btw) > Is this FWP list just your clever way > of getting free work from the best Perl consultants in the world? > (Not that *I'm* one of them...) Hah! No. This list is merely my clever way of seeing if someone else is more clever than I was in solving a particular problem ;-) Of course, I don't promise not to put some of the clever solutions into my toolbox for next time! - Vicki Homework is the ones that start out "I am researching Perl for my thesis and would like to know" -- -- |\ _,,,---,,_ Vicki Brown <vlb@cfcl.com> ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ Journeyman Sourceror: Scripts & Philtres |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' P.O. Box 1269 San Bruno CA 94066 '---''(_/--' `-'\_) http://www.cfcl.com/~vlb http://www.macperl.com ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? ==== Well, if you insist... Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to ==== fwp-request@technofile.org