on 03/04/2001 06:12 AM, Bart Lateur at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Mar 2001 05:32:25 -0500, Scott R. Godin wrote:
>
>> tried to syntax-check this JAPH of Abigail's and MacPerl not only choked on
>> it but started writing itty-bitty lines of nonsense graphical data to the
>> center of the screen.
>>
>> sub f{sprintf$_[0],$_[1],$_[2]}print
>> f('%c%s',74,f('%c%s',117,f('%c%s',115,f('%c%s',116,f('%c%s',32,f('%c%s',97,f
>> ('%c%s',0x6e,f('%c%s',111,f('%c%s',116,f('%c%s',104,f('%c%s',0x65,f('%c%s',1
>> 14,f('%c%s',32,f('%c%s',80,f('%c%s',101,f('%c%s',114,f('%c%s',0x6c,f('%c%s',
>> 32,f('%c%s',0x48,f('%c%s',97,f('%c%s',99,f('%c%s',107,f('%c%s',101,f('%c%s',
>> 114,f('%c%s',10,)))))))))))))))))))))))))
>
> First of all, you have a bad line wrap, after the second line. The 114
> shouldn't be split across two lines.
>
> And second, try replacing the 10 at the end with 13. Yup, that's a "\n".
>
> It works for me, even with the "10". I just get a little block character
> at the end of the line.
well it's hard to help the line-wrapping with e-mail software limitations.
I had 'unwrapped it' originally into a single line.
I never tried running it -- just syntax-checking.. which was when it blew
up.
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