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kevin wrote:
> Can any one see the syntax error in this perl script?
>
> #!/usr/bin/perl
>
> $word ="/usr/share/dict/words";
>
>
> if ($word
> =~ /([^aeiou]*a[^aeiou]*e[^aeiou]*i[^aeiou]*o[^aeiou]*u[^aeiou]*)/)
> { print "$1\n"; }
Syntax checks for me without a problem, though obviously the code isn't
going to work and the regex is insufficient :)
> I have the last question of my Family xmas quiz as how many words with
> all the vowels in and in the order of a e i o u
abstemious, arsenious and facetious are the only three, I believe.
James
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