Re: [FWP] Golf challenge: Scoring a word list

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.thayer.dartmouth.edu>]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 10:58:57PM -0500, Tom Moertel wrote:
> 
> THE GOLF CHALLENGE
> 
> Write the shortest Perl one-liner that reads a list of words on
> standard input and prints its score, given that the letters in
> $ARGV[0] have been guessed.  For example, if the file "test" contains:
> 
> makers
> primal
> vulcan
> 
> You should be able to enter the following command line
> 
>     perl [MAGIC STUFF HERE] "as" <test
> 
> and see "14" as output.
> 
> I've got my golf entry ready (73 chars), but I'll wait a while before
> posting it to avoid tainting the idea pool.
> 

60 characters, including 5 for -le'':

perl -le'$a=pop;%0=(),@0{/./g}=s/[$a]//g,$n+=keys%0for<>;print$n' as < test

Ronald

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