Ronald J Kimball wrote: > > On Fri, May 19, 2000 at 11:13:31AM -0400, Ala Qumsieh wrote: > > > > @ARGV="threes"; > > chomp and$three{$_} = 1 for<>; > > @ARGV="nines"; > > /(...)(...)(...)/&&exists$three{$1}&& > > exists$three{$2}&& > > exists$three{$3}&& > > print > > for<>; > > > > (which is actually just 4 lines long) > > You don't need the exists in that one, since you're setting the values in > the hash to 1. > > Ronald Would this hash slice work? I'm trading several evaluations for one join: "@three{/(...)(...)(...)/}" eq "1 1 1" and print -- David Nicol 816.235.1187 nicold@umkc.edu drawn to the speed and performance ==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl? Well, if you insist... ==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_ ==== unsubscribe