On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 08:56:26PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I recently came across this impenetrable Wall code: > > last|perl -pe '$_ x=/(..:..)...(.*)/&&"'$1'"ge$1&&"'$1'"lt$2' > That's gonna be tough for Randal to beat... :-) > -- Larry Wall in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > What on earth does this do? I get no output when I run it on my Linux > system. ( >*gulp*< ) > > Is there any tool that would help decoding this thing?
I was going to explain it to you, but just look at Larry's original posting: http://groups.google.com/groups?safe=images&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&[EMAIL PROTECTED]&as_scoring=d&lr=&hl=en aka http://tinyurl.com/25hls -Sven PS: One $1 refers to the shell variable and the other one to perl's variable etc. -- Said the attractive, cigar-smoking housewife to her girl-friend: "I got started one night when George came home and found one burning in the ashtray."
