Help needed on a just-for-fun-exercise

[Srinivas JONNALAGADDA]

Dear all,

I was trying the well-known problem of writing a program that outputs
itself. Here is first trial.

s = "\nprint \"s = \\\"\"\n0.upto(s.length) { |i| printf(\"%c
\", ?s) }\nprint \"\\\"\"\nputs s"
print "s = \""
0.upto(s.length) { |i| printf("%c", ?s) }
print "\""
puts s

However, I am having a difficulty self-printing the literal line. Could
someone help?

Greetings,
JS

 

[Harold Hausman]

Dear all,

I was trying the well-known problem of writing a program that outputs
itself. Here is first trial.

Greetings,
JS

It's not an answer to your question, but this page may be of some
interest to you:
http://wiki.rubygarden.org/Ruby/page/show/RubyQuines

hth,
-Harold

 

[Hal Fulton]

Dear all,

I was trying the well-known problem of writing a program that outputs
itself. Here is first trial.

s = "\nprint \"s = \\\"\"\n0.upto(s.length) { |i| printf(\"%c
\", ?s) }\nprint \"\\\"\"\nputs s"
print "s = \""
0.upto(s.length) { |i| printf("%c", ?s) }
print "\""
puts s

However, I am having a difficulty self-printing the literal line. Could
someone help?

All I can say is, find the tutotials and follow them.

I have difficulty reading other people's quines.
Maybe it is a one-person task, like driving nails.

The first ones I wrote are at http://rubyhacker.com


Cheers,
Hal

 

[David Vallner]

I was trying the well-known problem of writing a program that outputs
itself. Here is first trial.

Off the top of my head comes the absolutely oldest cheat in the book:

print File.read($0)

Try not to groan too loud.

David Vallner