Re: AW: mini-golf: first differing position

On Apr 21, 2004, at 10:27, Xavier Noria wrote:

> Sure thank you, then looks like
>
>     {$x ne$y&&$x=~/./sg&$y=~/\G\Q$&/g&&redo;$n=$-[0]}
>
> is the shortest solution so far (49).

Just for the record, using the trick in the last post by Terje we get 
48:

     {$x ne$y&&$x=~/./sg&$y=~/\G\Q$&/g&&redo;($n)=@-}

I'd bet that's way long nevertheless.

-- fxn