Re: fifth word (was Re: [FWP] Fun With Golf)

[Fergal Daly <fergal@esatclear.ie>]

On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:40:42AM -0400, Steve Lane wrote:
> >   sub fifth_word {my$a=pop;s/(\w+)// for 1..5;$1}
> >             start^                              ^end
> 
> that doesn't work, and s/my\$a/\$_/ won't fix it.  
> here's my first try:
> 
>     sub fifth_word {$_=pop;s/^\W+//;(split/\W+/)[4]}

How about

      sub fifth_word {$_=pop;/(\w+\W*){4}(\w+)/;$2}

a couple of chars shorter,

Fergal

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