in reply to parsing 'length ...'

Hello rsFalse,

perl -le '$_ = "a"; print length . '' ? "A" : "B" '

The one-liner terminates at the second '. Try using "" for the empty string instead of '' here:

1:34 >perl -le "$_ = 'a'; print length . '' ? 'A' : 'B'" A 1:34 >

(but my single and double quotes are reversed because I’m on Windows.)

Hope that helps,

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