Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, Oct 19, 1999 at 01:33:27PM -0500, Andy Lester wrote:
> > @v=('Happy birthday to you')x4;$v[2]=~s/to.*/dear perl5/;$"=";\n";print"@v.\n"
> 
> I got it down to 73:
> $a="Happy birthday";print join",\n",$b="$a to you",$b,"$a dear Perl5",$b;
> 
> Oooh, wait, save a character by setting $,
> $,=",\n";$a="Happy birthday";print $b="$a to you",$b,"$a dear Perl5",$b;
> 

Both of those omit the ".\n" at the end.

(Phew!  ;)

Ronald

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