You're right jdporter, I have no idea what I did that made it seem like perl -e " ... " worked in that case.

nodereaper, can you strike this? I guess that is not to form here.

UPDATE: Aha. I found out what I did that worked. It wasn't exactly what was in the instructions and I don't know why it worked. I just learned about say and I've been using it everywhere.

$ perl -E "@now = localtime(); for (@now) { say; }"
21
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10
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5
111
3
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