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Re: Another 'ode to backslash' ;-)

by EvanK (Chaplain)
on Sep 24, 2001 at 10:22 UTC ( [id://114255]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Another 'ode to backslash' ;-)

That's really pretty cool...but a suggestion to make it a little less annoying and a LOT shorter: 
@a=('\' x 74,'\' x 117,'\' x 115,'\' x 116,'\' x 32,'\' x 65,'\' x 110
+,'\' x 111,'\' x 116,'\' x 104,'\' x 101,'\' x 114,'\' x 32,'\' x 80,
+'\' x 101,'\' x 114,'\' x 108,'\' x 32,'\' x 72,'\' x 97,'\' x 99,'\'
+ x 107,'\' x 101,'\' x 114);foreach $a(@a) {print length $a, ",";}

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Re: Re: Another 'ode to backslash' ;-)
by hopes (Friar) on Oct 02, 2001 at 23:00 UTC
    There is an error in your code. See perldoc perlop
    or see perlop

    q/STRING/
    'STRING'
    A single-quoted, literal string. A backslash represents a
    backslash unless followed by the delimiter or another backslash,
    in which case the delimiter or backslash is interpolated.

    So '\' don't is what you expect. You have to write '\\' instead.
    Yeah, it's tricky. Note that
    print '\\\machine';

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    is the same as 
    print '\\\\machine';

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    but not 
    print '\\machine';

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    You can use q;\\; if you want to obfuscate more.

    Regards

    Hopes
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Re: Re: Another 'ode to backslash' ;-)
by Asmo (Monk) on Sep 24, 2001 at 18:45 UTC
    yes, of course it's shorter, but it's not the same result on the screen whenn you look at the code ;-) anyway, thx for your reply
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