[ale] Shell script

[Wandered Inn]

Thanks for the lesson, I did learn from it.  Then again, it was a quick
command line one liner.  Not a lot of thought put into it, as you have
certainly demonstrated.  I don't do a lot of perl on the command line.
It does work though. :)

Fletch wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "Wandered" == Wandered Inn <esoteric at atlnet.com> writes:
> 
>     Wandered> How about perl? Assuming you have one entry per line:
> 
>     Wandered> cat fileonumbers | perl -ne 'BEGIN { my $total=0;}
>     Wandered> {$total +=$_;}END {print $total;}'
> 
>         *tweet*
> 
>         Useless use of cat.  Five yards, repeat the down.
> 
>         And that `BEGIN { my $total = 0 }' is doing nothing. The
> lexical my that you declare there goes out of scope as soon as the
> block is done.  You're actually using the global $::total, which
> starts out undefined (which conveniently is treated numerically a just
> zero).
> 
>         Not to mention all the gratuitous use of whitespace. :)
> 
>         perl -lne '$t+=$_;END{print$t}' fileonumbers
> 
>         Can't get much closer to TECO than that, at least not without
> some more punctuation chars.
> 
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