Re: New golf game (for the extremely bored)

Two solutions of 38 characters:

#        1         2         3
#2345678901234567890123456789012345678

perl -le'print+(H,T)[rand 2]for a..gr'

perl -le'print 1<rand 2?H:T for a..gr'
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Re: Re: New golf game (for the extremely bored) by redsquirrel (Hermit) on Feb 08, 2002 at 18:06 UTC
Using your second example, you can take the score down to 37 like this: `perl -le'print+rand>.5?H:T for a..gr'` --Dave	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: New golf game (for the extremely bored) by Cody Pendant (Prior) on Feb 09, 2002 at 11:02 UTC
Can someone explain that "a..gr" thing to me please? I'm baffled. -- ($_=' jjjjjjuuuuuuuuusssssssssttttttttt annnnnnoootttttthhhhheeeeeerrrrrr pppeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrllllllllllllll haaaaccccccckkkkkkkeeeeeeeerrrrrr') =~y/[a-z]//s;print;	[reply]
Re: New golf game (for the extremely bored) by ejf (Hermit) on Feb 09, 2002 at 13:16 UTC
>Can someone explain that "a..gr" thing to me please? Same as 1..200, really ;) Basically you just use letters instead of numbers. a..z yields the 26 characters of the alphabet, a..az yields those and another 26 prefixed with a a..bz yields those and another 26 prefixed with b and so on. Same system, more "numbers" ... Incidentally a..gr yields 7*26 + 18 "numbers". update : as crazyinsomniac pointed out, the range-operator is discussed in more detail in perlman:perlop.	[reply]


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