in reply to Help with simple calculator script.
Some Super Search digging in our code vaults gives:
HTH
The problem with Juerd's is that it offers no error checking. This one does:
perl -ple'$_=eval||$@||0' [download]
For example:
$ perl -ple'$_=eval' 1/0 [download]
$ perl -ple'$_=eval||$@||0' 1/0 Illegal division by zero at (eval 1) line 2, <> line 1. [download]
-sauoq "My two cents aren't worth a dime.";