Output with the same length as the code

Question

In this challenge, you should write a program or function which takes no input and prints or returns a string with the same number of bytes as the program itself. There are a few rules:

• You may only output bytes in the printable ASCII range (0x20 to 0x7E, inclusive), or newlines (0x0A or 0x0D).
• Your code must not be a quine, so the code and the output must differ in at least one byte.
• Your code must be at least one byte long.
• If your output contains trailing newlines, those are part of the byte count.
• If your code requires non-standard command-line flags, count them as usual (i.e. by adding the difference to a standard invocation of your language's implementation to the byte count), and the output's length must match your solution's score. E.g. if your program is ab and requires the non-standard flag -n (we'll assume it can't be combined with standard flags, so it's 3 bytes), you should output 5 bytes in total.
• The output doesn't always have to be the same, as long as you can show that every possible output satisfies the above requirements.
• Usual quine rules don't apply. You may read the source code or its size, but I doubt this will be shorter than hardcoding it in most languages.

You may write a program or a function and use any of the standard methods of providing output. Note that if you print the result, you may choose to print it either to the standard output or the standard error stream, but only one of them counts.

You may use any programming language, but note that these loopholes are forbidden by default.

This is code-golf, so the shortest valid answer – measured in bytes – wins.

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Answer 1

Triangular, 9 bytes

9.(,%<>d]

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Formats into this triangle:

    9 
   . ( 
  , % < 
 > d ] ÿ

Triangular auto-inserts ÿ wherever there is no source code to fill the smallest triangle.

Without control flow, the program looks like 9(%d]. Explanation:

• 9 - push 9 to the stack
• ( - open loop
• % - print top of stack as integer
• d - decrement top of stack
• ] - jump back to ( if top of stack is truthy

Answer 2

Cubically, 2 bytes

%5

Try it online! Boring. Outputs 45. Also works with %4 (36), %3 (27), and %2 (18).

Cubically, 7 bytes

+5*66%6

Try it online! Outputs 4100625 by adding 45 to the notepad, then squaring it twice.

Cubically, 9 bytes

+5*5555%6

Try it online! Outputs 184528125 by adding 45 to the notepad, then multiplying it by 45 four times.

Answer 3

Python 3, 10 bytes

print(1e6)

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Answer 4

Common Lisp REPL, 2 bytes

'a

returns a followed by a newline

Answer 5

Cubically, 2 bytes

%5

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Prints the sum of all values on face 5. Face 5 is initialized to

555
555
555

so this prints

45

(Other valid answers: %2,%3,%4)

Answer 6

Recursiva, 2 bytes

L(

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It outputs 26.

L(
L   - Length of
 (  - upper-case alphabet yield

Answer 7

Implicit, 1 byte

#

Pushes the length of the stack to the stack. Implicit output. Try it online!

1 byte alternatives

• ß prints a space.
• ±, $, +, -, *, /, _, and ^ all push 0 if the TIO input box is empty.

Answer 8

SmileBASIC, 3 bytes

?#Y

Output:

128

#Y is a constant used for checking the (Y) button, and has a value of 128.

Answer 9

x86 .COM opcode, 9 Bytes

0100 B409          MOV     AH,09
0102 BAFF00        MOV     DX,00FF
0105 CD21          INT     21
0107 C3            RET
0108 24            DB      '$'

Answer 10

Flobnar, 9 8 bytes

*<*@
9*<

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Outputs 43046721, which is 9⁸. This uses the -d flag to output in decimal. Thanks to Esolanging Fruit for this solution

Answer 11

Z80Golf, 5 3 bytes

00000000: 3e76 34                                  >v4

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The output is vvv. Yay for ASCII-printable machine code!

Disassembly

start:
  ld a, $76 ; 3e 76
  inc (hl)  ; 34

Uses the same concept as the 5-byte one: edit the running code on the fly, and abuse stack underflow.

The program initially loads 'v' to register a, and increments the value at the memory address (hl), which is $0000 where the code $3e is located. Then the code becomes:

  ccf      ; 3f ; Complement carry flag, effective no-op in this program
  halt     ; 76
  inc (hl) ; 34

So the halt is uncovered right away. The stack underflow magic takes the next job; putchar's ret returns to $763f, $0034, and $0000 in the order, and three vs are printed in the process. Now pc is back at the start of the program. ccf is no-op, halt is executed, and the program terminates.

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A variation, 4 bytes

00000000: 3e76 343b                                >v4;

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The output is vvvv.

Disassembly

start:
  ld a, $76 ; 3e 76
  inc (hl)  ; 34
  dec sp    ; 3b

The added dec sp makes things slightly more convoluted; the stack is arranged so that putchar is run 4 times instead of 3. Without the instruction, the return addresses are $763f - $3b34 - $0000; with it, the addresses are $3e00 - $3476 - $003b - $0000.

Leaving this solution here, in case someone finds the "stack misalignment" technique useful.

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Previous solution, 5 bytes

00000000: 2e0a 3e76 34                             ..>v4

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Disassembly

start:
  ld l, $0a  ; 2e 0a
  ld a, $76  ; 3e 76
  inc (hl)   ; 34

The second instruction sets up the character to print, which is 'v'. The rest increases the value at the memory address $000a.

The output is vvvvv. _{Too bad it's not in uppercase (and it's not six v's), otherwise I'd reference the game VVVVVV.}

How it works

For no-input challenges, underflowing the stack into the code is a standard technique in Z80Golf. It is done by letting the PC flow beyond the end of the code, so that putchar at address $8000 is reached, a char is printed, and ret is executed.

• When the code section is run the first time, the instruction at memory $000a becomes ld bc, $0000 (opcode $01 $00 $00). Pretty much no-op, since all registers are zeroed when the program starts. putchar is reached and v is printed once. Then it returns to $0a2e.
• putchar is run again, v is printed, and the next return address is $763e.
• Same thing again, return to $0034.
• Same thing again, finally return to $0000, the start of the code.
• The code is run again; the instruction at memory $000a is now ld (bc), a (opcode $02). a is $76, so the value is written to memory $0000. After putchar is reached this time, return to $0000 again, and PC meets the new instruction $76 which is... halt! The program ends.

Answer 12

MathGolf, 1 byte

!

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For MathGolf, there is an implicit pop if nothing is on the stack and nothing is in the input. The operator will pop the default value for the type it's requesting, which is either 0, [] or "". That means that a lot of operators will pop implicit zeros from the empty stack, and transform them either into 0 or 1. There are 15 1-byte programs which satisfy the criteria of this challenge, most of them output 0. The rest output 1.

Output 0

*: 0
+: 0
,: 0
-: 0
.: 0
<: 0
>: 0
f: 0
i: 0
w: 0
x: 0

Output 1

!: 1
#: 1
): 1
=: 1

Answer 13

PowerShell, 4 bytes

1..2

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Output includes a trailing newline!

Answer 14

Husk, 2 bytes

s"

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Prints "".

Husk, 2 bytes

_1

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Prints -1.

Answer 15

SNOBOL4 (CSNOBOL4), 23 bytes

	OUTPUT =DUPL(1,22)
END

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Outputs 22 1s and then a newline.

Answer 16

Perl6 12 7 bytes

say |^6

Prints the number from 0-5 and a newline for 7 bytes. Suggested by Jo King.

Original

.say for ^7

Answer 17

Alchemist, 9 bytes

_->9Out__

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Uses up the initial _ atom to output the number of _ atoms remaining (0) nine times.

Answer 18

brainfuck, 36 bytes

++++++>-[>+<---]<[->++++++<]>[>.<-]<

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Answer 19

Keg, 2 bytes

Q.

Outputs 81, which is the ascii value of Q

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Answer 20

T-SQL, 21 15 bytes

print space(15)

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Output:

Answer 21

Keg, 2 bytes

2-byte answer:

Note that there is a 0x01 here. Try It Online!

Answer 22

AsciiDots, 8 bytes

.v.
(*$#

This starts with two dots, then duplicates them both, and then outputs all of their values. Might be golf able down to 6 bytes

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Answer 23

Or, 5 bytes

 fals

This returns false (this should be a five-character constant) onto the stack, which can be used later in the program (or not really, none of the current known instructions in Or access non-top items).

Explanation

From the IRC log:

14:01 < fungot> mroman_: the command to push false is ' f'

Since fungot had not yet presented the full language, all that we know in the current interpreter is that extra instructions do nothing.

 f    Push false onto the stack
  als All of those are recognized as NOPs in the current implementation.

Answer 24

Wren, 2014 bytes

Fn.new{"1"*14}

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Explanation

Fn.new{      } // Anonymous function
       "1"*14  // Returning the string "1" repeated 14 times

Answer 25

W, 2 bytes

1_

Explanation

1  % Push 1
 _ % Negate this number
% Therefore outputs -1

Answer 26

naz, 2 bytes

2o

Outputs 00.

Quite similar to my answer for Create output twice the length of the code.

Answer 27

Perl 5, 6 bytes

say $~

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From the Perl documentation:

$~ The name of the current report format for the currently selected output channel. The default format name is the same as the filehandle name. For example, the default format name for the STDOUT filehandle is just STDOUT .

Answer 28

GolfScript, 1 byte

#

Prints a new line character

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Answer 29

HTML (w3m -dump), 4 bytes

<s>

It outputs

[S:

Both source code and output contains a trilling new line.

Answer 30

Swift, 36 bytes

print(String(repeating:" ",count:36))