[FWP] Re: Receipts

[Leon Brocard <acme@astray.com>]

Philip Newton sent the following bits through the ether:
> John McNamara wrote:
> > At 08:13 11/09/00 +0200, you wrote:
> > > I finally got around to asking our bookkeeper here at work 
> > > (wow, three pairs of letters in a row -- maybe it should be
> > > bookkeeppeerr instead?),
> > 
> > Subbookkeeper has four but it isn't a word. If this was clpm 
> 
> or FWP

Well, here's as good a start as any:

% perl -ne 'print if $_=~/(.)\1(.)\2(.)\3/' /usr/dict/words  
bookkeeper
bookkeepers
bookkeeping

Leon
-- 
Leon Brocard.............................http://www.astray.com/
yapc::Europe - September 22-24 London - http://yapc.org/Europe/

... Error 404: .signature generator ran out of tuits

==== Want to unsubscribe from Fun With Perl?  Well, if you insist...
==== Send email to <fwp-request@technofile.org> with message _body_
====   unsubscribe