Re: (jeffa) Re: Predicting the end of times...

[AcidHawk]

Why do I get this when I try your one liner..?
Can't find string terminator "'" anywhere before EOF at -e line 1.
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Of all the things I've lost in my life, its my mind I miss the most.

[jeffa]

Are you running this on Win32? If so, try this one (which will not work in a Unix shell):

perl -le"$x+=ord,print qq|$_ - |,ord for split//,HOLYBIBLE;print qq|To
+tal: $x|"

The problem is that Win32 wants the whole expression wrapped in double quotes (not single quotes), and Unix shells will interpolate any tokens in double quotes before Perl gets a chance to execute. This results in Yet Another Platform Dependance for Perl one-liners that contain dollar signs. You can escape the quotes, but that gets ugly (uglier?) real quick. For example, this should work on both platforms (but since i don't have a Win32 box available, i can't test it on that platform):

perl -le"\$x+=ord,print\"\$_ - \",ord for split//,HOLYBIBLE;print\"Tot
+al: \$x\""

Update - nope, the previous one only works on Unix shells, Win32 doesn't need (or like) the escaped dollar signs. Thanks for testing this for me, BlueBlazerRegular and BrowserUk. :)

jeffa

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