Re: Re: Re: Re: (Golf) Friday Golf: Print Formatted Sequence of Digits (0 :)

Well. If you insist on using shells that muck around with the input before your programs get a chance to see it :^)

P:\test>perl -MO=Deparse -l40eprint,for'002'..'020'
BEGIN { $/ = "\n"; $\ = " "; }
foreach $_ ('002' .. '020') {
    print $_;
}
-e syntax OK

P:\test>perl -l40eprint,for'002'..'020'
002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010 011 012 013 014 015 016 017 018 01
+9 020
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Works fine for me :)

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Re^5: (Golf) Friday Golf: Print Formatted Sequence of Digits (0 :) by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Aug 14, 2003 at 21:39 UTC
The shell is not mucking around with the input one bit. It interprets single quotes for itself, though, so Perl gets to see a literal `002..020`. It works if you backslash the single quotes. I far prefer a slight inconvenience in cases like this over having to work around a braindead (lack of) quoting mechanisms for the general case. Although `CMD.EXE` has borrowed enough `bash`ishms that's it's barely bearable nowadays.. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re: Re^5: (Golf) Friday Golf: Print Formatted Sequence of Digits (0 :) by BrowserUk (Patriarch) on Aug 14, 2003 at 21:56 UTC
It interprets single quotes for itself,... Exactly. It's mucking about with stuff that's intended for the program :) </very toungue in cheek> Examine what is said, not who speaks. "Efficiency is intelligent laziness." -David Dunham "When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Richard Buckminster Fuller If I understand your problem, I can solve it! Of course, the same can be said for you.	[reply]