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November 13, 2006 at 12:08 am
#7375
Anonymous
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Yes, in a manner of speaking. I had the computer count them:
[code:htszz88u]#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my %saints;
for(’A’..’Z’)
{
my $page = `wget -O – http://www.catholic.org/saints/stindex.php?lst=$_`;
while($page =~ s/saint.php?saint_id=(d+)//)
{
$saints{$1} = 1;
}
}
print scalar(keys(%saints))."n";
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