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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by omoikane on Wednesday November 11, 2026 @09:56PM (#50462491)
There is a gem in the footnote right below gggijgziifiiffif, where it says it's possible to make a perl error quine by writing this line to the right location:

    Illegal division by zero at /tmp/quine.pl line 1.
I just tried this with perl 5.42.0, and any file name starting with a '/' will work.

See also: https://codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/48394

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Re:93% of Paint Splatters Are Valid Perl Programs (2019) by toast0 on Thursday November 12, 2026 @02:18AM (#50464046)
> I just tried this perl 5.42.0, and any file name starting with a '/' will work.

any file name? How about /1

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