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Re: Is substr only way of getting nth character of string? Ben Bullock 03-19-2008
Posted by Ben Bullock on March 19, 2008, 8:41 pm
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 On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:06:39 +0000, Uri Guttman wrote:
>>>>>> writes:

> RH> the only array I really need is the entire 96-character
> RH> character set.

my @x = map chr, 33..127;

> typing in the alphabet is more error prone than just 'a' and 'z'.

Well, typing the entire alphabet in one go certainly is error-prone if
you're six or seven years old. But eight year olds or above probably can
handle it.


Posted by Ben Bullock on March 19, 2008, 8:50 pm
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 On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:41:13 +0000, Ben Bullock wrote:

>> RH> the only array I really need is the entire 96-character RH>
>> character set.
>
> my @x = map chr, 33..127;

Sorry, I forgot you wanted tab and space:

my @x = map chr, 9,32..126;

Also included 127 by mistake.

Should have looked more carefully at http://www.asciitable.com/.

Sorry!



Posted by John Bokma on March 19, 2008, 10:22 pm
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> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 00:06:39 +0000, Uri Guttman wrote:
>>>>>>> writes:
>
>> RH> the only array I really need is the entire 96-character
>> RH> character set.
>
> my @x = map chr, 33..127;
>
>> typing in the alphabet is more error prone than just 'a' and 'z'.
>
> Well, typing the entire alphabet in one go certainly is error-prone if
> you're six or seven years old. But eight year olds or above probably can
> handle it.


I LOLed at your reply to this one :-D

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Posted by Ben Morrow on March 20, 2008, 1:35 am
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>
> Now, I just need to figure out how to do random permutations
> of arrays...

use List::Util qw/shuffle/;

my @random = shuffle 0..40;

Ben


Posted by Jonathan Clark on April 4, 2008, 8:50 am
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On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:10:30 -0800, Robbie Hatley wrote:

>
> Given program X....
> in Cobol: 857 pages
> in C: 37 pages
> in C++: 5 pages
> in APL: @&*%@#*$%*(%^*&@#*&%#@ (1/4 line of gibberish) In Perl:
> JustDo($what_I_mean)
> or die "Sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that!";

Would you mind if I grabbed that for my sigmonster?


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