My first clue is to explain ACA in the post. It's probably not very helpful; just a nudge in a direction. Here's the link:
My next clue is somethign most here could do themselves, but I just learned it this week (from reading PerlMonks!). Here's the perl -MO=Deparse output (this is without eyepopslikeamosquito's reduction):
@ca = (sub {
@kp = split(//, shift @_, 0);
$c = shift @_;
$p2{' '} = ' ';
$C2{' '} = ' ';
foreach $_ (@kp, ('a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e', 'f', 'g', 'h', 'i', 'j'
+, 'k', 'l', 'm', 'n', 'o', 'p', 'q', 'r', 's', 't', 'u', 'v', 'w', 'x
+', 'y', 'z')) {
if (not exists $p2{$_}) {
$k = chr 65 + ($a++ + $c) % 26;
$p2{$_} = $k;
$C2{$k} = $_;
}
}
}
, sub {
$t = shift @_;
$h = shift @_;
foreach $_ (split(//, $t, 0)) {
$r = $r . $$h{$_};
}
return $r;
}
);
$ca[0]->('thequickbrownfoxjumpsoverthelazydogs', 10);
print $ca[1]->('ZOCK FWUKLMT BMTE LFQR', \%C2) . "\n";
My next clue is to comment my variables. This is a big leap and probably a give away. I wish I had better intermediate clues for ya.