in reply to Re: Help with simple calculator script.
in thread Help with simple calculator script.

The problem with Juerd's is that it offers no error checking. This one does:

perl -ple'$_=eval||$@||0'

For example:

$ perl -ple'$_=eval' 1/0
vs.
$ perl -ple'$_=eval||$@||0' 1/0 Illegal division by zero at (eval 1) line 2, <> line 1.

-sauoq
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