commandline and script behavior differs

[physi]

Dear Sisters & Brothers

I've got a in my eyes strange behavior:
This small line works on the commandline:

perl -e '@a=(a..z,A..Z); print $a[rand @a]'

but within a script I have to write:

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my @a = ('a'..'z','A'..'Z');
print $a[rand @a];

Can anyone explain it, why I have to quote the letters in the script, while I haven't on the commandline ?

Cheers
physi

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[fruiture]

You don't use strict on the commandline, that's why. Try:

perl -Mstrict -we '@a=(a..z,A..Z); print $a[rand @a]'

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[physi]

ohhh my god !!!!

Thanks for that ;-)

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[broquaint]

Can anyone explain it, why I have to quote the letters in the script, while I haven't on the commandline ?

Because you're using strict and it doesn't allow you to leave barewords about at your leisure. Also strict and warnings aren't required for scripts, they're just an awfully good idea.
HTH

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broquaint