R. Joseph Newton wrote:
Cy Kurtz wrote:
Hi all. I have a little program here that generates a lottery play slip
for the mega-millions game. It selects 50 of the 52 numbers exactly once
over 10 tickets of 5 numbers each. It then selects 10 super ball
numbers, one for each ticket. It then prints it
>
> > $k=1;
> > while($k<(($i-1)*5+$j)){
>
> Pop quiz time. What's easier to read, the above or this:
>
> while( $k < ( ( $i - 1 ) * 5 + $j ) ) {
>
> We won't bill you for the whitespace. ;)
>
That is of course assuming that *indiscriminate* padding with
spaces incre
Cy Kurtz wrote:
> Hi all. I have a little program here that generates a lottery play slip
> for the mega-millions game. It selects 50 of the 52 numbers exactly once
> over 10 tickets of 5 numbers each. It then selects 10 super ball
> numbers, one for each ticket. It then prints it all out(duh).
>
Here's my entry. I took a different approach than James.
I don't like to collect the data and produce the report at the
same time. Both our approaches are valid, though. I tried to
stick with James' report structure.
Perl allows us to be selective with our styles. I find it
a comfortable
(Let's keep our discussion on the list, so we can all help and learn.)
On Feb 27, 2004, at 9:28 AM, Cy Kurtz wrote:
Here is my updated code, in case you're interested. It's not as elegant
as your code(I can see I have a lot to learn!), but it works for me.
I'm
still studying your code. Thank you
Hi all. I have a little program here that generates a lottery play slip
for the mega-millions game. It selects 50 of the 52 numbers exactly once
over 10 tickets of 5 numbers each. It then selects 10 super ball
numbers, one for each ticket. It then prints it all out(duh).
I wonder if anyone would l
On Feb 26, 2004, at 3:54 PM, Cy Kurtz wrote:
Hi all.
Hello.
[snip problem description]
The code(try not to laugh out loud):
I'll inline some comments.
#!/usr/bin/perl
#numpick.pl
#use strict;
This is easily fixed, see below.
#use warnings;
This problem takes a little more work to fix, but I'll
On 26 Feb 2004 16:54:12 -0500
Cy Kurtz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all. I have a little program here that generates a lottery play slip
> for the mega-millions game. It selects 50 of the 52 numbers exactly once
> over 10 tickets of 5 numbers each. It then selects 10 super ball
> numbers, one f
