Re^3: encryption golf (one time pad)

I was going for the shortest solution in a source file without counting the shebang line

If so, then mine is 6 to your 18.

#!/usr/bin/perl -0777p
$_^=<>
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I think your method of counting isn't appropriate, though.

Mine's more aesthetically pleasing to my eyes, but that's entirely subjective and I'm probably biased anyway

No, I agree. I did say mine was crazy.

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Re^4: encryption golf (one time pad) by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Mar 17, 2008 at 09:36 UTC
If you construct the shebang line like that, though, perhaps the "-0777p" should be counted? You'd still have a shorter solution, either way. What's really funny is I wrote mine in response to a 51-character one on a site all about trivially short encryption implementations, and now you go and trim 1/3 or 2/3 off of it again depending on how you count that. Update: s/0377/0777/ to match ikegami's update (Thanks, Corion).	[reply]
Re^4: encryption golf (one time pad) by Hue-Bond (Priest) on Mar 17, 2008 at 10:49 UTC
If so, then mine is 6 to your 18. According to the general Perl golf rules (which can be seen, for example, here, near the bottom), "If you use options on the #! line, the options themselves are counted, including the leading space and -." (emphasis in the original). So `-0777pe"$_^=<>"` would be 16. -- David Serrano	[reply] [d/l]
Re^5: encryption golf (one time pad) by mr_mischief (Monsignor) on Mar 17, 2008 at 14:51 UTC
On the command line, it's 16. In ikegami's file-based version, I count 13 including the leading space for the options. That's quite an improvement over 18.	[reply]