Re: (Golf) Friday Golf: Print Formatted Sequence of Digits

*grins* I don't know how cheating this is, but ...

echo '"000" .. "020"' | perl -ple '@f=eval;$_="@f"'
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Between the quotes, I'm at 14. Woo-hoo! *laughs*

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Re^2: (Golf) Friday Golf: Print Formatted Sequence of Digits by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 14, 2003 at 20:22 UTC
Well, if you want to go that route.. `echo '@_ = "002" .. "020"; print "@_\n"' \| perl -ne 'eval'` [download] Four characters! (Reminds me of "how do you write a LISP interpreter in LISP?".) Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply] [d/l]