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in reply to poll ideas quest 2012

When my Perl script doesn't work, i

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Re^2: poll ideas quest 2012
by moritz (Cardinal) on Aug 01, 2012 at 13:40 UTC
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2012
by frozenwithjoy (Priest) on Aug 02, 2012 at 07:26 UTC

    It's obviously a missing semi-colon, but I don't have the time to figure out where it is; therefore, change all characters to semi-colons!

    perl -pi -e 's/./;/g' super_important_script.pl
Re^2: poll ideas quest 2012
by chacham (Prior) on Aug 01, 2012 at 13:35 UTC

    run it again "just in case"
    wait until the next morning, hoping "reverse code rot" fixes it