Re: [FWP] Fun With Golf

[Jeff Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net>]

On Oct 18, Ronald J Kimball said:

>  Write a Perl subroutine which returns the fifth word in a string. A word
>  is any sequence of letters, numbers, and/or underscores. The string will
>  be passed as the sole argument and will contain at least 5 words.

Here's my try.  Start AFTER the opening {, please.

  sub fifth_word {my$a=pop;s/(\w+)// for 1..5;$1}
            start^                              ^end

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