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Can you describe what the function is supposed to do?

Using strict is good, but declaring sub nearest inside of a for loop with the variable $find used in the subroutine while declared in the outer scope nearly spurns all its benefits.

($q=q:Sq=~/;[c](.)(.)/;chr(-||-|5+lengthSq)`"S|oS2"`map{chr |+ord
}map{substrSq`S_+|`|}3E|-|`7**2-3:)=~y+S|`+$1,++print+eval$q,q,a,

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