Re: reduce code (Golfing References)

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Curiously, in addition to code golf, I've enjoyed a life long passion for real, physical golf. Though I can't compete with Tiger Woods (either on or off the golf course), my golf was once strong enough to represent my club in pennant matches. I fondly remember competing against other clubs in the good ol' days, especially punching the air with my fist while eyeballing my match play opponent after holing a crucial putt from the edge of the green. Though unable to physically eyeball my code golf opponents nowadays, I do frequently indulge in Tiger-esque fist pumps while code golfing at my desk, sometimes even leaping out of my chair to do so.

-- from The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part VI)

Not specifically answering your question, but you seem to have become addicted to the competitive aspect of code golf. Though currently retired, I've experienced first-hand how addictive it can become, how you find yourself shaking your fist in fury at someone you don't know, from the other side of the world, who just had the temerity to pass you on the code golf leaderboard! :)

BTW, tybalt89, who answered your post with the 44 character solution, is mentioned in some of the links below and is one of the all-time golfing greats, and yes he is on the other side of the world to me, and yes he used to regularly pass me on the Perl golf leaderboard ... though I didn't shake my fist in fury at him because I knew how good he was and expected it; I shook my fist most often at `/anick, who I expected to beat, but sometimes didn't.

If you are eager to improve your golfing skills (as opposed to getting others to solve the problem for you) you could learn from the vast amount of prior art in code golf, for example by reading and understanding the many solutions described in the code golf nodes below:

• The Lighter Side of Perl Culture (Part IV): Golf

• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part I)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part II)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part III)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part IV)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part V)
• The golf course looks great, my swing feels good, I like my chances (Part VI)

• Spending Time on Saving Time [golf]
• Drunk on golf: 99 Bottles of Beer
• Re: too much free time (99 Bottles of Beer)

• Compression in Golf: Part I
• Compression in Golf: Part II
• Compression in Golf: Part III

• The 10**21 Problem (Part I)
• The 10**21 Problem (Part 2)
• The 10**21 Problem (Part 3)
• The 10**21 Problem (Part 4)

• Dueling Flamingos: The Story of the Fonality Christmas Golf Challenge
• Golf: Magic Formula for Roman Numerals
• When One Golfer Speculates On What Another Is Doing...

• Re^2: Golf: Length of longest line in a file
• Re^3: Counting positive numbers
• Re: pi and some continued fractions
• Re^2: Mini-Tutorial: Working with Odd/Even Elements
• Re: Golf: Sudoku solving
• Re^3: Perl Golf Ethics
• Re: Rot13 Challenge
• Re^3: Golf: Count unique words
• Golf: ROT-n
• Golf: Fix de facto HTML comments
• Competition fuels obsession over Perl
• Friday Golf: All 2-digit combinations
• Pascal-Sierpinski for golfers
• Diamonds for fun
• Golf for unique digits
• Homework Golf
• Using the olde times internet
• Golf Challenge: FizzBuzz
• Golf: Factorials
• 12 days of Perl?
• Golf code in perl

• Golf: Seven segment display by kikuchiyo (2012)
• The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by grinder (2005) - Roman Numeral obfu (see especially ambrus reply)
• a couple of rounds of golf for the weekend by hv (2005) - how many partial grids are there that represent a fair Sudoku problem?
• (Golf) Let's go bowling by virtualsue (2001) - many replies
• Golf Do-s and Don't-s by japhy (2001)

• new code.golf site
• old shinh golf site

Some Perl Monk Golfers

• primo
• thospel
• tybalt89
• mtve
• pijll
• Jasper
• japhy

• ambrus
• o0lit3
• robin
• Sec
• TedYoung
• thelenm
• Util

• cog
• dewey
• huck
• polettix
• rinceWind
• shmem
• tt08
• ysth

Many references were added long after the original reply was made