Small golfing trick

Hi,

I just discovered this, and do not know if it's commonly used in golf
(it's been a long time since I last played): if you only need a single
hash in your script, you can use the symbol table itself.

Compare the classic "remove duplicate lines" one-liner

    perl -ne'$s{$_}++||print' file

with

    perl -ne'$$_++||print' file

Three characters in one shot!

-- 
 Philippe "BooK" Bruhat

 The learned man makes a mistake but once... but the truly stupid keep
 practicing until they get it right.
                                    (Moral from Groo The Wanderer #75 (Epic))