note toro <strike>I'm using Ubuntu Linux and double-quotes work for me.</strike> <p>You're right [jdporter], I have no idea what I did that made it seem like <c>perl -e " ... "</c> worked in that case.</p> <p><strike>[nodereaper], can you strike this?</strike> I guess <a href="http://perlmonks.org/?node_id=181282">that is not to form here</a>. </p> <p><b>UPDATE:</b> Aha. I found out what I did that worked. It wasn't exactly what was in the instructions and I don't know why it worked. I just learned about <c>say</c> and I've been using it everywhere.</p> <p><c>$ perl -E "@now = localtime(); for (@now) { say; }" 21 20 10 15 5 111 3 165 1 </c></p> 738558 738558