in reply to A Simple question

Don't modify the string you're modifying in a substitution. That's deep (broken) magic.

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Re: Re: A Simple question
by Anarion (Hermit) on Sep 04, 2001 at 02:05 UTC
    Do you know why it prints: "11@p @" ?


    $anarion=\$anarion;

    s==q^QBY_^=,$_^=$[x7,print

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      I have absolutely no idea - no surprises there - but to my delight, when I run it it prints

      11 fO&vO/e

      .. except that instead of 'O' I get one of those machine code emoticons that I would render with <font face="wingdings">K</font> except I can't owing to circs beyond my control. I find this pleasantly inexplicable. Someone must know what's going on, and I'd love to know what.

      § George Sherston

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        Perhaps it's 31331. andy. ;)
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        Uh, oh. =)
        First, it spits out:
        /e: Event not found.

        The second time prints:
        s//svi freakA...

        Don't ask me why. And tell me, please.

        dani++

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