Peter’s blog ✴ Week 124 ✴ 2 August 2021
THE WEEKLY CHALLENGE
Women and equality
Task 1
Happy International Women’s Day
Write a script to print the Venus symbol, international gender symbol for women. Please feel free to use any character.
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Analysis
Not much to say about this one! The symbol is available in Unicode: ♀ (hex 2640) if you need it.
Script
#!/usr/bin/perl # Blog: http://ccgi.campbellsmiths.force9.co.uk/challenge use v5.26; # The Weekly Challenge - 2021-08-02 use utf8; # Week 124 - task 1 - Happy womens day use warnings; # Peter Campbell Smith binmode STDOUT, ':utf8'; say 'Happy International Women’s Day! ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ♀ ';
1 lines of code
Completed after the closing date and not submitted to GitHub
Output from script
Happy International Women’s Day!
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