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From:
BooK
Date:
December 7, 2001 02:22
Subject:
Re: Santa Hole 5 (wc.pl) Post Mortem
Message ID:
1007720564.3c109874078ae@imp3-1.free.fr
En réponse à Piers Cawley <pdcawley@bofh.org.uk>:

> 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 love this one. As an added bonus, perlvar says "Use of $# is deprecated."

-- 
 Philippe BRUHAT - BooK

 When you run from your problem, you make it that much harder for good
 fortune to catch you, as well.     (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #14 (Epic))

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