Re: lwall snippet

Sven Neuhaus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.fun
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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.
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