in reply to Need crash course in PERL!

I'll write it for you under two conditions. First, I want you to spell the language "Perl", because that's its name. Second, I want 20% of your salary for the first year, 15% for the second year, and 10% for the third year.

In return, you can claim that your code was written by an author of multiple highly-regarded books on Perl. (You can even imply that you wrote it, as that doesn't seem to be a problem.)

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Re^2: Need crash course in PERL!
by tantarbobus (Hermit) on Aug 27, 2008 at 01:46 UTC

    Wow 45K for 2 lines of code. That beats my record of 2K for 10 lines ;)

    #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
`sqlplus_script $argv[0]`

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      We got quoted $15K from a support contractor for what ended up one line of Perl: in-place edit preserving file modification times. I unfortunately made my hourly wage for 30 minutes. Though it was really more than fair since another hacker gave me the one-liner. :) So I was essentially paid for knowing who to ask.

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