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in reply to Re: (golf) Interlaced Strings
in thread (golf) Interlaced Strings

Nice. You can save 2 chars on these by replacing:
split//,pop
with
pop=~/./g # or just 1 char if you put in the 's' modifier
   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print