Re: [FWP] Golf: chessboard

[Rick Klement <rklement@pacbell.net>]

Keith Calvert Ivey wrote:
> 
> The challenge is to write a Perl program with the fewest
> characters (the shebang line doesn't count) that takes as a
> command-line argument a chess position in Forsythe-Edwards
> notation (FEN) and prints out an ASCII representation of a
> chessboard like that produced by the Position->to_text() method
> in Gareth Rees's Games::Chess module.
> 
> My solution is less than 80 characters.  Good luck!
> 
> --
> Keith C. Ivey <kcivey@cpcug.org>

#!/usr/bin/perl -l
$_=pop;
s/\d/' 'x$&/eg;
s/ (?=.(..)*$)/./g;
s/./$& /g;
s#/ #\n#g;
print

66 characters (if all on one line with no NLs)

This is probably too straightforward, but it's bedtime.
I'll have to see what my subconscious can come up with...
The Fun part is putting in the black squares.

-- 
Rick Klement

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