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My eyes could be playing me tricks again but I think your

die $help unless $ARGV[1];

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and it's previous incarnations will die erroneously if the user wants to sum from, say, -7 to 0. Perhaps unless defined $ARGV[1]; would be better?

Cheers,

JohnGG

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Re^6: a simple exercise in readability
by apotheon (Deacon) on Jan 15, 2007 at 17:08 UTC

    Good catch. Thanks -- I've edited the code on my system at home, though I'll leave the error as it is where you noticed it here at PerlMonks.

    print substr("Just another Perl hacker", 0, -2);
    		 - apotheon
    CopyWrite Chad Perrin

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