Re: Solutions and Discussion for Perl Quiz of the_Week #1

Kevin Pfeiffer <[email protected]> Fri, 25 Mar 2005 18:42:04 +0100
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I just happened to run across this again...

Mark-Jason Dominus writes:
> Sample solutions and discussion
> Perl Quiz of The Week #1 (20021016)
>
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>
>         Write a function, 'center', whose argument is a list of
> strings, which will be lines of text.  'center' should insert spaces at
> the beginning of the lines of text so that if they were printed, the
> text would be centered, and return the modified lines.
[...]

This was, IMO, a perfect (beginner) quiz; what it looses perhaps due to 
being a little uninteresting in the task is more than compensated for by 
the lessons it provides in a great follow-up analysis.

-K

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