Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!att!att!linac!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!orstcs!sapphire!pvo From: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl Subject: Re: Cute hack around tiny bug (Re: Help a perl apprentice) Message-ID: <21417@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Date: 29 Oct 90 22:58:21 GMT References: <18840001@hp-lsd.COS.HP.COM> <21380@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU> Sender: usenet@orstcs.CS.ORST.EDU Reply-To: pvo@sapphire.OCE.ORST.EDU (Paul O'Neill) Organization: Coastal Imaging Lab, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR Lines: 19 In article mdb@ESD.3Com.COM (Mark D. Baushke) writes: > >I sent Larry private e-mail about this and suggested a one character >change to the script change > > $line{$avail} = sprintf("%30.30s%10.1f%6s\n", ...); >to > $line{$avail} .= sprintf("%30.30s%10.1f%6s\n", ...); > Yikes!! First it was one-liners. Now it's one-byters! What's next? One-bitters? Paul O'Neill pvo@oce.orst.edu DoD 000006 Coastal Imaging Lab OSU--Oceanography Corvallis, OR 97331 503-737-3251