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Hey! Thats really elegant and instructive Abigail-II - but please forgive a stupid question...
Would it be possible for the product of $f ^ $s to contain a "1" and hence pollute your $_ string?


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Re: Detecting transpositions
by Abigail-II (Bishop) on Aug 08, 2003 at 09:32 UTC
    Would it be possible for the product of $f ^ $s to contain a "1" and hence pollute your $_ string?

    Yes, but no. It could certainly be possible that the XORred string contains a character "1". But this is ok, the tr/\x00/1/c turns anything that is not "\x00" into a "1" anyway - after the tr, the string will only contain "\x00" and "1" characters.

    Abigail

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      Oh of course they are. Looks like I'm being even more stupid than usual

      Sorry to have troubled you
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