Re: [tlug] "Knoppix Boot Options . . ." ~= m/knoppix/troll/

["Josh Glover" <jmglov@example.com>]

On 06/06/07, Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen@example.com> wrote:

> P.S.  Don't run that perl without an audit, it's probably a virus.  At
> least, I felt sick after writing it.

: jglover@example.com; perl -e 'use strict; use warnings; my $foo =
"barf"; $foo = s/f$//;'
Use of uninitialized value in substitution (s///) at -e line 1.
: jglover@example.com; perl -e 'use strict; use warnings; my $foo =
"barf"; $foo = s/f$//;'
: jglover@example.com; perl -e '"Knoppix Boot Options . . ." ~= m/knoppix/troll/'
Bareword found where operator expected at -e line 1, near "m/knoppix/troll"
syntax error at -e line 1, near ""Knoppix Boot Options . . ." ~"
Execution of -e aborted due to compilation errors.

Damn you!

I think you meant:

my $subject = "Knoppix Boot Options . . .";
$subject =~ s/knoppix/troll/i;
print "$subject\n";

But to be fair, if I tried to write that same code in Python, I doubt
it would compile either. :)

-josh