Beta 4.15-12

[Desai, Jason]

Here you go:

# perl -e 'use English; printf "%vd\n",$PERL_VERSION;'
%vd

# perl --version

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Jason

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mariano Absatz [mailto:mailscanner at LISTS.COM.AR]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 30, 2003 4:22 PM
> To: MAILSCANNER at JISCMAIL.AC.UK
> Subject: Re: [MAILSCANNER] Beta 4.15-12
> 
> 
> BTW... I'm not at all sure that this is as backward portable as Tony 
> thinks... 
> 
> can someone with access to a pre 5.6 perl tell me what does 
> this command 
> print:
> 
> perl -e 'use English; printf "%vd\n",$PERL_VERSION;'
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> El 30 Apr 2003 a las 16:58, Mariano Absatz escribió:
> 
> > El 30 Apr 2003 a las 19:37, Julian Field escribió:
> > 
> > > As so much has happened in the last 24 hours or so, 
> here's a new beta
> > > release. It's on the downloads page, so go to
> > >         www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/downloads.shtml
> > > to get it.
> > > 
> > > I have been pretty careful on what changes have gone in, 
> and what have
> > > stayed out, but some testing by you folks would be much 
> appreciated.
> > OK, you did what Tony said, but kept a bug of mine (I had 
> to versions and 
> > sent the wrong patch last time)...
> > 
> > As the Camel book says, $PERL_VERSION is _not_ printable, 
> so you must use 
> > sprintf("%vd",$PERL_VERSION)... this patch applies to 
> 4.15-12 (sorry for the 
> > last one):
> > 
> 
> --
> Mariano Absatz
> El Baby
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