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Golf: Back to those damn beer bottles again...

by cLive ;-) (Prior)
on Mar 16, 2003 at 05:16 UTC ( [id://243431]=perlmeditation: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??

I was browsing the 99 bottles of beer site and saw someone had submitted a minimal (but grammatically incorrect for "1 bottle") Perl version at 140bytes.

So, I had a play, and came up with these:

# minimalist, grammatically incorrect (126 bytes) $c=' bottles of beer';$d=' on the wall';$i=99;warn"$i$c$d,\n$i$c,\nTak +e one down and pass it around,\n",--$i,"$c$d\n\n"while$i # minimalist, grammatically correct (167 bytes) $_=' bottles of beer';$d=' on the wall';$i=99;sub f{$i-1?s/e\b/es/:s/s +//;$_};warn$i.f."$d,\n$i".f.",\nTake one down and pass it around,\n", +--$i||'No',f."$d\n\n"while$i

Anyone got any better ones?

.02

cLive ;-)

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Re: Golf: Back to those damn beer bottles again...
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 16, 2003 at 05:49 UTC
Re: Golf: Back to those damn beer bottles again...
by benn (Vicar) on Mar 17, 2003 at 21:58 UTC
    Oooh - that's a fun squeeze. I missed the last lot, so I thought I'd join in here. Even on the 99 bottles site, opinion seems to be divided as to whether it's "Take one down, pass it around" or "Take one down *and* pass it around" - 3 bytes is important in this game....:) Anyway, here's a gramamatically correct one weighing in at 156 bytes with the 'and'.
    $n=99;warn $b=&b,$w=" on the wall",", $b,\nTake one down and pass it a +round,\n".&b(--$n)."$w.\n"while$n;sub b{$s=$n-1?'s':'';($n||'No')." b +ottle$s of beer"}
    Maybe there should be an ISO '99 bottles' standard to establish these important questions of 'and' or ',', 'No' or '0', plurals, CRs etc.. :)
      You obviously didn't look too closely at my attempt! Shaved another 3 bytes of by predeclaring the sub before use, making the & optional: and shaved a space after the warn...

      And if we cheat with the 'and' and the 'one' :), we get down to 149 ;-)

      sub b{$s=$n-1?'s':'';($n||'No')." bottle$s of beer"}$n=99;warn$b=b,$w= +" on the wall",", $b,\nTake 1 down & pass it around,\n".b(--$n)."$w.\ +n"while$n;
      cLive ;-)
        lol - no - I got so wrapped up in everybody elses attempts in the previously-referenced nodes that I missed the fact I'd written a virtual dupe of yours (other than the plural handling) :) I reckon you should replace the '1' and '&' cheats and declare yourself a winner with 153...though there's still something smelly about the bottle(s) - I'm convinced there's shaving to be done there somewhere...
Re: Golf: Back to those damn beer bottles again...
by mojotoad (Monsignor) on Mar 17, 2003 at 19:27 UTC

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