Perl Contests

[Leif Sawyer]

Well, helpfull, i guess.. obfuscated is hard to do, usually.. both are
great!

from  Camel 4.0:

       perl -ne 'print if /\S/ || !$s; $s = /^\s*$/;'

Which is great to pipe CPP into, because all those blank
lines get squeezed into one..



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Roxanne Reid-Bennett [mailto:rox at tara-lu.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 29, 1999 2:19 PM
> To: Alaska Perl Mongers
> Subject: Re: Perl Contests
> 
> 
> corliss at alaskapm.org wrote:
> [...]
> > All right, let's go ahead with Leif's idea for a Perl 
> one-liner contest, the
> > entries to be voted on by all members.  
> 
> What is the intent of the Perl one-liner?
> 
> "Most useful"? 
> "Sneakiest" ?
> "Most obscure"?
> "Most elegant"?
> 
> Or is it simply to be: the one picked by the members of the list (or
> those at a meeting?) as "their favorite" ?
> 
> I don't plan on participating, but knowing what the goal is, or the
> judgeable qualities, might help those who might want to <g>
> 
> -- 
> Roxanne Reid-Bennett                       rox at tara-lu.com
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