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in reply to Re: Re: Re: Competition fuels obsession over Perl [golf]
in thread Competition fuels obsession over Perl

For the "less than ten vowels" version, you can also lose one by getting rid of that space after the "map{9-".

Alas, Perl complains with Unrecognized file test: -y if you try that. However, using your lc trick saves two more strokes:

print+map{/./;9-$&.$'}sort map{9-lc=~y/aeiou//." $_\n"}@F

You could allow up to 90 vowels (at the cost of 3 strokes) by changing 9 to 99 and . to ..

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Competition fuels obsession over Perl [golf]
by educated_foo (Vicar) on Feb 19, 2004 at 22:29 UTC
    Hm... "9-y///" works fine on 5.8.3 for me, while 5.6.0 chokes. Nothing jumps out at me in perldelta, but it does mention that parsing of m// has changed.