[hbpm] Puzzle

Daniel Hopkirk hoppers99 at maxnet.co.nz
Wed Mar 19 01:52:52 CST 2003


Ok, so I just reread the email. Question answered. Sorry.


Regards,
Daniel Hopkirk
http://hawkesbay.pm.org
ICQ#:39905948

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Woolley" <george at metaart.org>
To: <hawkesbay at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:48 PM
Subject: [hbpm] Puzzle


> Here's a puzzle of sorts.
> 
> A line of Perl code fell off the dining room table
> and was shattered.
> The letters ended up all over the floor.
> Somehow in the confusion,
> all the space characters were destroyed.
> Noone knows how many there were originally.
> (And noone cares.)
> Some anal-obsessive nerd (me) has
> organized the letters as follows
> with the hope that someone
> will reconstruct the line.
> 
> ''..;Haabegikmnopprrstwy
> 
> Your mission, should you accept it,
> is to reconstruct the line
> for the anal obsessive nerd.
> 
> Hints:
> 1) It is known that the original line
> was simple enough
> that everyone on this mailing list would
> be capable of reading it.
> Trust me on this.
> 2) That's 5 special characters including
> two single quotes and no double quotes.
> 
> Request: Please send your solution(s)
> to george at metaart.org,
> thus giving someone else a chance
> to solve it.
> 
> 
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