Hello Monks,

Been through the year 2007'ish thread here about fizzbuzz. Reason: - Just came back from an interview. I had mentioned in my resume that I was doing some sys admin level perl scripting, and one of the interviewers asked me to write a script that would print fizz if the number is divisible by 3, buzz if the number is divisible by 5, and fizzbuzz if it is divisible by both.

I had clearly stated during the interview that I had done perl scripting about 3 years ago, and then didn't much write any scripts, except for a 15 minute fiddle may be once in a month or two.

It did take me about 15-20 minutes to write this script, and I had to look up the documentation (It was stated that I could refer to perldocs). So I came up with the following:

C:\>more newfizzbuzz.pl
#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;

my @stuff = (1..100);

my @fizzbuzz = map { ($_ % 3 == 0 && $_ % 5 == 0)?print "fizzbuzz\t":
                     $_ % 3 == 0? print "fizz\t":
                     $_ % 5 == 0?print "buzz\t":print "$_\t"
                     } @stuff;
[download]

And here is the output.

C:\>perl newfizzbuzz.pl
1       2       fizz    4       buzz    fizz    7       8       fizz  
+  buzz    11      fizz    13  14  fizzbuzz        16      17      fiz
+z    19      buzz    fizz    22      23
fizz    buzz    26      fizz    28      29      fizzbuzz        31    
+  32      fizz    34      buzz    fizz    37      38      fizz    buz
+z    41      fizz    43      44      fizz
buzz    46      47      fizz    49      buzz    fizz    52      53    
+  fizz    buzz    56      fizz    58      59      fizzbuzz        61 
+     62      fizz    64      buzz    fizz
        67      68      fizz    buzz    71      fizz    73      74    
+  fizzbuzz        76      77  fizz        79      buzz    fizz    82 
+     83      fizz    buzz    86      fizz
        88      89      fizzbuzz        91      92      fizz    94    
+  buzz    fizz    97      98  fizz        buzz
[download]

I was asked if there was a better way of doing it and I told that there must be, but that I would have to try it out and see. I was also asked if there was a reason why I didn't use an if/else if statement, and such questions.

So I came up here and did a search for fizzbuzz, and most of the folks have written a oneliner (golf). Just wanted to know if there is something wrong with the script I have given above? Is one liner a preferred way of writing such scripts? Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

Note:- Granted that what I've written is not elegant/compact/idiomatic, but just wanted to know if it's so bad that it justifies the weird expression on the interviewer's face? after checking my script :)

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.