On Fri, Jul 23, 1999 at 02:15:48PM -0500, Edward M. Perry wrote: > > For shortest, can anyone beat this one-liner? > > > > perl -e'while(<>){$t+=1+ord($1)-ord"a"while/(.)/g;print if$t==100;$t=0}' > > > > How bout > > perl -e'while(<>){$t+=1+ord($1)-97 while/(.)/g;print if$t==100;$t=0}' > I won't claim shortest, but this one is far faster. perl -ne '$w=$_; tr/A-Za-z\0-\377/\01-\032\01-\032/d; print $w if (unpack("%16C*",$_) == 100);' This handles mixed case input and ignores embedded spaces and punctuation. -- Eric Krohn ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe