Re: Small golfing trick

Le vendredi 24 mars 2006 à 09:14, Jasper écrivait:
> On 3/23/06, Philippe 'BooK' Bruhat <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> >     perl -ne'$s{$_}++||print' file
> >
> > with
> >
> >     perl -ne'$$_++||print' file
> >
> > Three characters in one shot!
> 
> I think MTV used this in the palindrome golf, at least. So it's been
> around for a while :)

I was pretty sure this wasn't original, but I liked the feeling when I
thought "by the way, the symbol table is just a hash!".

With the help of :: (or rather '), one can even build up nested data
structures, I think...

-- 
 Philippe "BooK" Bruhat

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