Re^5: (Golf) Friday Golf: Print Formatted Sequence of Digits (0 :)

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 bashishms that's it's barely bearable nowadays..

Makeshifts last the longest.

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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]

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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.

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