Re: [FWP] 4 Consecutive Letters

[Uri Guttman <uri@sysarch.com>]

>>>>> "PS" == Peter Scott <Peter@PSDT.com> writes:

  PS> 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).

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

yep. i didn't see that. but it is useful to know for golf.

uri

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