Re (tilly) 2: (Golf) JAPH?

If you are going to go through this trouble, name the file "Just another Perl hacker,\n" and then reduce it to:

die$0
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Re: Re (tilly) 2: (Golf) JAPH? by dws (Chancellor) on May 17, 2001 at 05:58 UTC
Not quite. You need the "\n" at the end of the `die()` argument to keep it from spitting out the filename (again) and line number.	[reply] [d/l]
Re (tilly) 4: (Golf) JAPH? by tilly (Archbishop) on May 17, 2001 at 14:50 UTC
I didn't miss that detail. Here is a Perl program that both writes and runs the script under Unix: `my $filename = "Just another Perl hacker,\n"; open (OUT, "> $filename\0") or die "Cannot write '$filename': $!"; print OUT 'die$0'; close OUT; system "perl '$filename'";` [download] Do you see where the return is coming from now?	[reply] [d/l]


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