in reply to Re: Re: Yet Another Perl Aptitude Test (yapat)
in thread Yet Another Perl Aptitude Test (yapat)

I am coming across the problem now that when I answer a question,
the program tells me I am wrong, no matter what I say.
If I then use the ? to see the "right" answer, it's the same thing I answered!

What does this little button do . .<Click>; "USER HAS SIGNED OFF FOR THE DAY"

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Re: Re: Re: Re: Yet Another Perl Aptitude Test (yapat)
by zeno (Friar) on Feb 28, 2001 at 23:21 UTC

    Hi tame1! I'm sorry this is happening. It is possible that you are having a problem because my Windoze machine has put different line feed characters in the program than your machine wants to use. I found that when I carried this over to my linux box, I had to run this one-liner to get it to work:

    perl -p -ibak -e 's/\015//g' yapat.pl

    This removed any funky characters which made the regex fail. Again, I'm really sorry that happened-- tell me if this fixes the problem (and if it doesn't, please tell me too!) Thanks. -zeno

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      I am having the same problem, and the one-liner didn't fix it. Suggestions?
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        Another common problem is if you just used "cut'n'paste" to grab the script, then you probably introduced leading spaces on the lines. You should probably use the "d/l code" link at the bottom of the node instead (though browsers can be a bit silly about this and it can introduce other problems that way).

        It would probably good to update the script so that it ignores whitespace completely.

                - tye (but my friends call me "Tye")
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