[ILUG] [TOTD] find error corresponding to number

[Niall O Broin]

On Thursday 6 May 2004, diamond at skynet.ie (Stephen Shirley) wrote:

>kevin lyda wrote:
>> shell.  feh.   :)
>
>Uh huh.
>
>> http://ie.suberic.net/~kevin/strerror.pl
><SNIP>
>> all in a 162 byte perl script with two ?: ops and a map call.
>
>A 162 byte uncommented perl script. To compare like with like, i removed 
>the comments from padraig's version:
>
>diamond at fand:/space/dl(0)$ wc -c strerror strerror.pl
>142 strerror
>162 strerror.pl

FFS - it's Perl - it's self commenting.


Niall