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Top of the mornin!

Ive been hacking around all night and I have gargled some code which is confusing me.

perl -wle '$_="a"x20;s/(?{print "${^O}rules".-"${0}macs"})//g'|wc -l
I was obfuscating sorry.

the idea is that no matter what you change the length of $_ to, it is always going to run the print command 2x the number plus two. I am speculating that this number may change on different platforms. But anyways. What is the logic here? What is the regex doing to come to that magical number of executes?


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