Re^2: Printing a hollow square of Asterisks

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Re^3: Printing a hollow square of Asterisks by ww (Archbishop) on Mar 04, 2009 at 15:12 UTC
Maybe you thought the `something` in `if( something ){` was an actual instruction or variable? If so, `use strict; use warnings;` would have disabused you of that notion.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Printing a hollow square of Asterisks by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2009 at 14:40 UTC
Yes it does. `$ perl test.pl \|od -ta 0000000 sp sp sp sp nl sp sp sp sp nl sp sp sp sp nl s +p 0000020 sp sp sp nl 0000024 $ perl test.pl \|od -tx1 0000000 20 20 20 20 0a 20 20 20 20 0a 20 20 20 20 0a 20 0000020 20 20 20 0a 0000024 $` [download] You're supposed to replace something with a simple expression that evaluates to true when you want to print spaces.	[reply] [d/l]