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

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

On Sun, Feb 25, 2001 at 02:05:23AM -0500, Tom Moertel wrote:
> Ronald J Kimball wrote:
> > 
> > 60 characters, including 5 for -le'':
> > 
> > perl -le'$a=pop;%0=(),@0{/./g}=s/[$a]//g,$n+=keys%0for<>;print$n' as < test
> 
> Pretty good, but it fails if there are no guesses (i.e., $ARGV[0] is
> '').

Oops.  61 characters.

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


> BTW, I've managed to whittle my entry down to down to 59 strokes.  ;-)

I've got a few different approaches, but this is still my shortest.
When will we see yours?  :)


Ronald

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