Bryan R Harris wrote: > Let me guess, the number of lines on a standard terminal in the old days? > =)
No, that was 25. But the last line was used for status by both vi and emacs, so: perl -le 'print scalar reverse "24"' Actually, the number varies from as low as 20 to as high as 60. 60 being the number of lines you can print on US letter paper. 42 is just somewhat reasonable. -- Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth, Shawn Programming is as much about organization and communication as it is about coding. I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your thingy. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
