Following on from a discussion about token separation in Python today, one of my colleagues put forward the idea of employing the ASCII bell character (^G) to be used for token separation within Perl scripts. Not one to be encouraged, I have written the following code which does just that, employs the ASCII bell character for token separation within Perl scripts.

#!/usr/bin/perl

BEGIN{local$/;open+F,$0;$_=<F>;tr/\007/;/;s/(?!:\n)BEGIN{[^\n]+}(?!:\n
+)//;eval;exit}

use strict^G

my @array = ( 'Hello', 'World!' )^G
print "@array\n"^G

exit 0^G

[download]
While not a replacement for Filter::Simple, this code does provide a working proof-of-concept and offers yet another way by which I can have fun with my colleagues during code reviews :-)

 

perl -le 'print+unpack("N",pack("B32","00000000000000000000001001000110"))'

In reply to Audible Code Separator by rob_au

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • 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! —
  • 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:
    & &amp;
    < &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.