[BNE-PM] you lot have all gone quiet again? (Fwd)
Anthony Thyssen
anthony at cit.gu.edu.au
Wed Sep 18 01:39:18 CDT 2002
Derek Thomson on wrote...
| Anthony Thyssen wrote:
| Horizontal columns is easy:
|
| perl -le 'print for 1..100' | perl -ne 'chomp; print "$_\t"; print "\n"
| unless $. % 10'
|
This will fail if strings are occasionaly longer than 8 characters :-)
You are right It actually isn't easy as a one liner.
A very complex issue that even ls often does badly at.
| Yes, that's breaking the rules for one-liners - no modules (*everything*
| can be done in one line if you've got CPAN!)
|
Modules (standard perl modules that is) are in my oppion permissible in
perl one liners ;-)
Never heard of Array::PrintCols! Not a standard perl module.
I'll have to look it up.
Anthony Thyssen ( System Programmer ) http://www.sct.gu.edu.au/~anthony/
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