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in reply to Re: Golf challange: match U.S. State names
in thread Golf challange: match U.S. State names

This has two problems: on a non-match, index will return -1, which, ANDed with 1, returns 1, so virtually any string will match. This sub will also match strings like "ALC" or just "A".
   MeowChow                                   
               s aamecha.s a..a\u$&owag.print