Everybody else is doing it - Ruby Code Golf

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Re: Everybody else is doing it - Ruby Code Golf

Posted 03 February 2011 - 07:59 PM

View PostDark_Nexus, on 03 February 2011 - 05:05 PM, said:

With some shorthand stolen from previous posts.

28!

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Re: Everybody else is doing it - Ruby Code Golf

Posted 03 February 2011 - 08:00 PM

Odd, it worked for me. What version of ruby are you using?
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Re: Everybody else is doing it - Ruby Code Golf

Posted 04 February 2011 - 08:23 AM

1.8.7

It runs, but its not returning a correct count. I don't think string.count takes regex.
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Re: Everybody else is doing it - Ruby Code Golf

Posted 04 February 2011 - 09:06 AM

Ah! I think you're right. It doesn't seem to be a regexp but an escape sequence? I just ran it on a file with more whitespace and it didn't handle tabs or newlines.
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Re: Everybody else is doing it - Ruby Code Golf

Posted 04 February 2011 - 05:57 PM

Interesting. I can't find any documentation anywhere that says \s is an escape sequence. It is only counting non spaces though, not all white space.

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Re: Everybody else is doing it - Ruby Code Golf

Posted 04 February 2011 - 07:52 PM

My solution may be considered cheating, but it's written in perfectly valid Ruby and runs from the shell invocation "ruby golf.rb" on Snow Leopard. It does give an answer of 24, though ;-)

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Otherwise, the best I've been able to do is 28 using Ruby alone, using the following:

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