Re: [FWP] 4 Consecutive Letters

[Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com>]

At 11:58 PM 8/14/00 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> writes:
>   PS> That makes this the shortest so far, then:
>
>   PS>        perl -ne'/.(??{($a=$&)++;$a++.$a++.$a})/&&print'
>
>and i bet you can change && to & for one more char (another golf trick
>that works sometimes).

Not in this case.  & doesn't short-circuit.

--
Peter Scott
Pacific Systems Design Technologies


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