Re: A little text file munging golf on the list

[email protected] (Marius Ascheberg)
Newsgroups perl.golf
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Thu, 13 Mar 2003 11:50:23 +0200 (EET)
Tuomo Salo <[email protected]> wrote:

> #!perl -p0
> s#^(\S* )(.*)\n\1#$1$2 #m&&redo
> 
> If the input contains no duplicate lines, the "\S*" can be replaced with ".*".
> Using a literal newline would shave yet another stroke.

#!perl -p0
s/^((\S+).+)\n\2/$1/m&&redo

30 strokes, but I was not able to remove the redo.
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