in reply to Re^3: Turning a questionable string into a number
in thread Turning a questionable string into a number

Also note that on Windows, you need to specify :raw first when specifying a file encoding. See e.g. Re^3: unicode in windows. 
($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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