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- From: Mike Stramba <stramba@zooid.guild.org>
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
- Subject: programming challenge
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.100131.11703@zooid.guild.org>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 10:01:31 GMT
- Organization: The Zoo of Ids
- Lines: 23
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- Ok, all you perl wizards out there.
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- This out'a be a snap for ya.
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- If I have the string :
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- Exxxxppppppprrrrrrreeeeesssssiiiiiiiiioooooonnnnnnnnnsssssssss
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- and I want to kill the duplicated letters and end up with:
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- Expressions
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- Lets' see some of your elegant solutions !
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- Btw, this problem came up as a result of trying to edit a formatted man
- page ... for guess what program ? (starts with 'P ... ends with 'l')
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- Why am I editing a man page? ... because my computer, an Atari doesn't know
- about them.
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- I'm interested in seeing solutions to the above, anyway.
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- Mike
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