Re: [OT] PERL

2014-05-18 Thread Richmond
On 18/05/14 13:53, Peter W A Wood wrote: Richmond On 18 May 2014, at 18:31, Richmond wrote: Can anybody tell me what a % sign [not a hash] as an operator means in PERL? $lo = ($uni - 0x1) % 0x400 + 0xDC00 IFF a % means the same as MOD in Livecode then the formula in the recent stack I ma

Re: [OT] PERL

2014-05-18 Thread Peter W A Wood
Richmond On 18 May 2014, at 18:31, Richmond wrote: > Can anybody tell me what a % sign [not a hash] as an operator means in PERL? > > $lo = ($uni - 0x1) % 0x400 + 0xDC00 > > IFF a % means the same as MOD in Livecode then > the formula in the recent stack I made to calculate surrogate pairs

[OT] PERL

2014-05-18 Thread Richmond
Can anybody tell me what a % sign [not a hash] as an operator means in PERL? $lo = ($uni - 0x1) % 0x400 + 0xDC00 IFF a % means the same as MOD in Livecode then the formula in the recent stack I made to calculate surrogate pairs is not as bad as it could be and only needs slight modification.