Re: [FWP] Puzzle thread on clpmod

[Chaim Frenkel <chaimf@pobox.com>]

>>>>> "JP" == John Porter <jdporter@min.net> writes:

JP>     while ( /[a-e](?=[a-e]{4})/g ) {
JP>       join( '', sort split //, substr( $_, pos()-1, 5 ) ) eq 'abcde' or next;

You need an lc in there, some words are capitalized.

How about the slightly shorter (join '', sort split //, lc) =~ /^abcde/

<chaim>
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