in reply to max .. min does not work

Above you have the answer you were looking for. But just out of curiosity, if you use the -l option, you won't need to add those \n to the print statements.

perl -le 'for (1..5) { print "$_" };'

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Re^2: max .. min does not work
by toolic (Bishop) on Jul 23, 2008 at 16:28 UTC
    Nor is it necessary to add "$_" to print, for that matter: 
    perl -le 'for (1..5) { print };'

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    Update: And golfing down a little more: 

    perl -le 'print for(1..5)'

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      Nor are the parentheses in this reversed form ;-) 
      perl -le 'print for 1..5'

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      Update: Of course, we could drop for too, but that won't help golfing: perl -le '$,=$/; print 1..5' :)
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      :o) You are right of course. My intention was not to golf the code. It's just that I find that \n a bit messy, and thus just tried to show something a bit cleaner. But yours are pretty readable as well.

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