> ... called quines ...
And, in perl, one of the most amazing quine programs is Damian Conway's
SelfGol. It's also the game of Life and a quine-izer for other programs -
don't even think about looking at it.
http://libarynth.f0.am/cgi-bin/twiki/view/Libarynth/SelfGOL
I had the good fortune to s
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> 1) H. . . Did you chomp?
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Title: RE: Script printing its own source code
1) H. . . Did you chomp?
2) I don't think there's any problem at all with a script opening itself as a text file. Keep in mind that when it's running it's been interpreted and is in memory (so no file sharing issue).
Ted Schuerzinger wrote:
> Over on rec.puzzles on Usenet (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), somebody posted
> a puzzle asking about using programming languages to print out a program's
> own source code.
This is a classic programming challenge called "self-replicating program" or
"quine". (Try Googling ei
ay 28, 2005 3:23 PM
To: Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com
Subject: Re: Script printing its own source code
That's just the Windows command prompt putting in a line before
returning to
the prompt. If u did it in Bash u could get it to not do that. But for
the
puzzle they were proba
That's just the Windows command prompt putting in a line before returning to
the prompt. If u did it in Bash u could get it to not do that. But for the
puzzle they were probably talking about making a script that printed itself
without knowing it's own name ahead of time.
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Over on rec.puzzles on Usenet (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>), somebody
posted a puzzle asking about using programming languages to print out a
program's own source code. So, I quickly whipped up the following 11-line
script in Perl:
#! perl -w
use strict;
my $selfprint="c:/scripts/selfprint.pl";
