Turning number ranges into prefixes

[David Cantrell]

On Wed, Aug 23, 2006 at 05:21:31PM +0100, Simon Cozens wrote:
> David Cantrell:
> > $ perl -e 'print "1424210000" ^ "1424225999"'
> > [some whitespace]
> 
> Sorry, there was some magic I was missing; I half-remembered this hack, which
> I think is either due to Nicholas or Damian. Given 
>     ($a ^ $b) =~ /^(\0+)/,
> the common prefix between $a and $b is ...

14242, but that is also the prefix for 1424277777, which is outside the
range.

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