Nothing surprising. Just posting my first decent japh. Started with the dereferencing in the last line and went from there.
perl -e '@_=(shift,pop);$*={ord"<"=>[sub{printf"%s",shift;join$&, @ARGV[$.,$|]}]};$\=(($,)=$"=~?( )?)&&qq; $_[$#_]\n;;print+chop$,, $*->{$=}->[$[]->($_)foreach($_[$|++]);' Just another Perl hacker,

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Re: Just convoluted
by deliria (Chaplain) on Aug 10, 2003 at 15:26 UTC

    Excellent, ++ (as soon as i get votes again)
    I don't think i've seen a lot of scripts which abuse the perl internals this much..

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      No internet at the new house, so I haven't had a chance to reply. Thanks for the compliments, and nice work on deciphering the code. I would say something about being a newbie, but that kind of detracts from the previous compliment ;-)