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Re: [FWP] 100 point words.

To: "WORENKLEIN, David, GCM" <David.Worenklein@gcm.com>
Subject: Re: [FWP] 100 point words.
From: Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>
Date: Fri, 23 Jul 1999 15:36:42 -0400
Cc: Brent Michalski <perlguy@technologist.com>, fwp@technofile.org
In-Reply-To: <3F0D7E139BA9D2118C260008C7B18A006FCFEC@gpmal004.gcm.com>; from WORENKLEIN, David, GCM on Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 03:22:42PM -0400
References: <3F0D7E139BA9D2118C260008C7B18A006FCFEC@gpmal004.gcm.com>

On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 03:22:42PM -0400, WORENKLEIN, David, GCM wrote:
> Sure.
> 
> perl -ne'$t+=ord($&)-ord"`"while/./g;print if$t==100;$t=0'
> 
> I'm just not sure why I need the () around $&.
> 

Without it, the code parses as 

ord($&-ord"`")

because subtraction has higher precedence than list-ops.

Ronald

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