Small problem. You may want to clear out the leading \b's after the while statement. Like many others on this thread, you've been bitten by the terminal's evaluation of \b.
#!/usr/bin/perl -l
$s = "\bt\b\bhello";
sub smack {
$a = $s;
$a =~ s/^\cH+//;
1 while ($a =~ s/[^\cH]\cH//g);
$a;
}
sub othersmack {
$a = $s;
1 while ($a =~ s/[^\cH]\cH//g);
$a =~ s/^\cH+//;
$a;
}
print smack();
print othermack();
print "smack correct" unless grep {ord==ord"\b"} split//,smack();
print "othersmack correct" unless grep {ord==ord"\b"} split//,othersma
+ck();
__END__
output:
hello
hello
othersmack correct
However, getting rid of the alternation is a good bit quicker. =)
antirice The first rule of Perl club is - use Perl The ith rule of Perl club is - follow rule i - 1 for i > 1
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