Re: lwall snippet

2004-04-11 Thread Sven Neuhaus
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

Re: lwall snippet

2004-04-10 Thread kynn
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Re: lwall snippet

2004-04-10 Thread Ronald J Kimball
On Sun, Apr 11, 2004 at 12:06:17AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see. But I think you meant $_ x= /(..:..)...(.*)/ 'foo' ge $1 'foo' lt $2; since the shell's $2 is never used, as far as I can tell. I still have no clue what the shell's $1 would be in this case, other than