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Hi Derrick,
On Tue, 16 May 2017 14:01:34 +0800
derr...@thecopes.me wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am working on problem #8 of the euler project. see below.
>
>
> I have the below solution below for this which works fine but gives me the
> wrong answer. I checked shlomifish's solution on github and his is similar to
> mine, more elegant since he uses "map", but he gets a different answer. I
> feel like I have some basic misunderstanding about how something should work.
> Or maybe I am misunderstanding the problem. Thanks in advance for any push in
> the right direction. see my solution below.
>
> Derrick
>
> #! /usr/bin/env perl
>
> use strict;
> use warnings;
> use 5.024;
> use List::Util qw(max product);
>
> my $totalmax = 0;
>
> while ( my $numbline = <DATA> ) {
> chomp $numbline;
> my @numbline = split //, $numbline;
You're processing the input number line-by-line, but it's one whole number and
the products may span across more than one line. You need to slurp it and
prepare an array of digits.
> say "@numbline ";
> my @product = ();
> for (0..$#numbline - 13) {
This should be "@numbline - 13" - an off-by-one error.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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