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--- Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk> wrote:
> Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> writes:
>
> > On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:36:50AM +1100,
> Andrew.Savige@ir.com wrote:
> >> --- Piers Cawley --------------------- 21
> >> #!/usr/bin/perl -lp
> >> $#='%010g'}{$_=$.
> >
> > Shouldn't that be 20?
>
> Nope. The space before the '-' counts.
>
> But I was pretty proud of this one. And surprised that
> nobody else found it. Course, I'm still annoyed that I
> found this but not the $\ based reverse.
I wish too I'd found the $\ solution... don't we all? I
went through the entire list of special variables too, I
found $# but ruled it out as being equal total length to
printf. As usual, I missed an opportunity.
Jonathan Paton
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