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Re: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #17 (QUIZ SPEC CHANGE): msg#00068

Subject: Re: Perl Quiz-of-the-Week #17 (QUIZ SPEC CHANGE)
colin.rafferty-/PgpppG8B+R7qynMiXIxWgC/G2K4zDHf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
>Of course, I would also say that to simplify part II, the output in
>this quiz should use dots rather than underscores to signify a missing
>character, so that the regex is already there as /^$word$/.

This is very inefficient -- you have to do a full scan of all words
for every iteration.

I think the trick is to do better than this.

-- 
     Joshua Kronengold (mneme-Xhj3G7Rj6JI@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx) "I've been teaching 
|\      _,,,--,,_  ,)
--^--him...to live, to breathe, to walk, to sample the   /,`.-'`'   -,  ;-;;'  
  /\\joy on each road, and the sorrow at each turning.   |,4-  ) )-,_ ) /\     
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