On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Terje's Mail WebOn as wrote: > There was a discussion about the -F switch on the fwp list some time ago. > I have been trying to use the -F option on the current golf contest and > ran into the same problem. when i run the script like this : > ../anagram.pl < sample.txt it works, but like this : > perl anagram.pl < sample.txt it fails with a "syntax error" > > this is known to be a bug in perl, and that it will be fixed. > > i know that in the rules it says that it will get a 664 status, but it's > really annoying. I can fix the problem by inserting a hard \0 at the end > of the switches, but it adds one char to my solution,and i'm not able to > paste that solution into the web page to submit it. >
As I recall, last time this came up we had to take the extra character hit. The rules do specify Perl 5.6.1, warts and all. As for not being able to paste into the form, I had this problem in TPR(0,1), and Jerome agreed to accept my submission by email. Maybe the judges would do the same again. (Isn't there a way to upload a named file to the remote site? Would this be a good alternative to the current form submission method?) -- Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/ "This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
