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A popularity-contest is a competition where the answer with the highest vote tally (upvotes minus downvotes) wins. As these are frequently closed, read the tag info and post your challenge to the sandbox first.
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Print 123454321 without if statements and using only 2 variables
Powershell
((1..9)|%{
$_ = ($_%18-5)
5 - @($_,-$_)[$_ -lt -$_]
})-join ' '
1 variable, no if, no functions (unless you were to count -join which is just for displaying the data...
Explanation: Lo …
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0
votes
Loop without 'looping'
PowerShell
date
sleep 1
$this = $MyInvocation.MyCommand.Definition
&"$this"
This will print the current date, wait 1 second and then the program will call itself endlessly...
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3
votes
Print 123454321 without if statements and using only 2 variables
Perl
Version 1:
for(1..9){
$x = ($_%18 - 5);
print 5 - ($x, -$x)[$x < -$x] . " ";
}
Version 2:
for(1..9){
$x = ($_%18 - 5);
$x =~ s/-//;
print 5 - $x . " ";
}
For both versi …
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3
votes
Write a piece of code to output the line number of the print / output statement itself (in t...
Powershell
$l=(Get-PSCallStack | ForEach{$_.Location})[0].split(' ')[-1]; "Hello World, from line $l!"
And:
try{ I AM ERROR. } catch { $l=$error[0].InvocationInfo.ScriptLineNumber; "Hello World, from …
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3
votes
Write a piece of code to output the line number of the print / output statement itself (in t...
Perl
Another Perl one:
use warnings;
$SIG{__WARN__} = sub { ($line = shift) =~ s/\D//g; };
$x=$x+1; print "Hello World, form line $line!\n";
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3
votes