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On Dec 3, Piers Cawley said:
>Eugene van der Pijll <E.C.vanderPijll@phys.uu.nl> writes:
>
>> Piers Cawley schreef op 03 december 2001:
>>> Eugene van der Pijll <E.C.vanderPijll@phys.uu.nl> writes:
>>> >
>>> > Of course, using what I assume to be the same hack, my score goes
>>> > down
>>> > by two strokes as well...
>>>
>>> Only two? You can get it down by three.
>>
>> You're right, after some experimenting, I found the 1-character exit.
>> How very... interesting... if that is the right word.
>
>Don't you just love the error message? I have the feeling that it
>might be a bug because it gives a syntax error in another context.
It is not a bug.
perl -peCODE
becomes
while(<>){CODE;}continue{print or die qq(-p destination: $!\n);}
(I kept the non-important parts simple.)
That means I can write
echo "hah" | perl -lpe 'print q'
and get
}continue{print or die qq(-p destination: $!\n)
--
Jeff "japhy" Pinyan japhy@pobox.com http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/
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** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 **
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