Lingua::Pangram

Andrew Wilson andrew at soto.kasei.com
Mon Jan 28 05:19:31 CST 2002


On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 11:01:24AM +0000, Jasper McCrea wrote:
> Wesley Darlington wrote:
> > Also (same length),
> > 
> > perl -pe'for$i(a..z){$_=""if!/$i/i}'
> > 
> > Wesley.
> 
> err.. I've been on holiday, but why not save 3 characters with:
> 
> perl -pe'for$i(a..z){/$i/i||die}'

Perhaps because it does the wrong thing?[0].  Your version bums out the
first time it fails, it should ignore the phrase and move silently onto
the next one.

cheers

Andrew

[0] Are you sure you haven't been talking to Marc? ;-)



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