On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 02:23:35PM -0400, Ronald J Kimball wrote: > perl -e'while(<>){$t+=1+ord($1)-ord"a"while/(.)/g;print if$t==100;$t=0}' Here's a point counter: #!/usr/bin/perl -apF'' print length join('',map{$_ x(ord(uc($_))-64)}@F),' '; It just prints the point count and the word -- you can grep for output lines starting with 100. -- Don Marti | As for systems that are not like Unix, such as dmarti@zgp.org | MSDOS, Windows, the Macintosh, VMS, and MVS, http://zgp.org/ | supporting them is usually so much work that it whois DM683 | is better if you don't. -- Richard M. Stallman ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe