In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Eugene van der Pijll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > En op 08 maart 2002 sprak Marcelo E. Magallon: >> >> At some point I kept thinking about this in terms >> of abcd -> abbccd -> xyz, where x=f(ab) and so on. >> > > Me too. Did anyone else notice this: > > ~$ perl -le'$_="abcd";$,=",";print unpack"A2XA2XA2X",$_' > ab,bc,cd > > However, I couldn't make anything out of this that was shorter than, > say, 70 chars. > > Eugene
Also fun is this: perl -wle '$_="abcde"; pos=1; print $& while /.\G./g' ab bc cd de But I could build nothing useful with that (s/// does not restart)
