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Re: Re: Re: Re: golf anyone? (taking first field)by John M. Dlugosz (Monsignor) |
on Jan 07, 2003 at 08:25 UTC ( [id://224906]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
Yea, that's what I noticed when I decided to throw it out as a golf: stopping at the colon or the end-of-line complicates things in a slightly subtle manner. Doing it in multiple passes it's no big deal: chomp first, then delete the tail end stuff, then throw it away if empty. But that's not elegant, and it doesn't just "fit together" as a composition of functions (one feeding the result to the next outer one). I think this also has an interestingly high punctuation to alpha ratio. I see you make sure the pattern always matches, so $1 is always OK (just empty). —John
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