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Re: Re: Re: Luhn Number Golf

by chipmunk (Parson)
on Feb 26, 2002 at 22:15 UTC ( [id://147748]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Re: Luhn Number Golf
in thread Luhn Number Golf

Unfortunately, you can't simply eliminate reverse. Cody Pendant explained why in the comments in his solution; if the number has an odd number of digits, you'll end doubling the wrong digits. For example, your solution would return true for 548979844, which is not a Luhn number.

You shouldn't eliminate my$s; either. That's not there for strict-ness, but to allow the subroutine to be called more than once. Without it, $s would keep its values between calls, throwing off all the subsequent answers.

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Luhn Number Golf
by blakem (Monsignor) on Mar 08, 2002 at 09:10 UTC
    If you aren't going for strictness, you can get the same initialization effect with
    ($_,$s)=@_
    Which is one char shorter than
    my$s;$_=pop
    If you also want to keep strictness, you can always sidestep it by replacing $s with a global punctuation variable.

    -Blake

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