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Re:A Quine Puzzle by JoshTriplett on Monday July 20, 2015 @04:48PM (#9918961)
Variant that doesn't rely on potentially undefined behavior of asking "repeat" to repeat before the beginning:

cHJpbnQgMApwcmludCAyCnByaW50IDAKcHJpbnQgMgpwcmludCAwCnJlcGVhdCAzIDIKcHJpbnQgMgpyZXBlYXQgMyAyCnByaW50IDIKcmVwZWF0IDMgMgo=

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Re:A Quine Puzzle by daveloyall on Monday July 20, 2015 @06:16PM (#9919478)
Good eye.

Also, https://github.com/wgreenberg/quine.zip/blob/gh-pages/test/i...

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Re:A Quine Puzzle by JoshTriplett on Monday July 20, 2015 @11:10PM (#9920374)
Sure, but LZ doesn't necessarily allow that.
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Re:A Quine Puzzle by sevenfive on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @01:53AM (#9920733)
How do you use these strings?
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Re:A Quine Puzzle by JoshTriplett on Tuesday July 21, 2015 @02:02AM (#9920753)
They're base64. Feed them to "base64 -d" on Linux, or one of the many base64 decoders on the web. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Base64
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