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31 characters: perl -ne's/./$&&1?o:e/eg;print'

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Ouch!
by frankus (Priest) on Sep 18, 2000 at 19:10 UTC
    perl -ne's/$&&1?o:e/eg;print'

    Okay this rocks and I've voted for your code... I think this is what's happening :

    1. perl -ne ''executes the one liner forever.
      1. the regexp substitutes each character using s/./ and /g.
      2. $& is the previous matches.
      3. &1 is evaluated in the trinary operator ? using /e.
      4. if &1 then replace with odd else replace with even
    2. print defaults to $_, the results of the regular expression.
    but what I really wanna know is: what is &1?

    Brother Frankus.

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      &1 is the logical and applying the bit mask (1). Even numbers always end with a zero bit, odd always end with a 1 bit. This is a simple test for even/odd.
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        Yup this I get, now ... how did I get a negative posting for asking a question? Is my appraisal wrong or does someone resent the ZX spectrum colours?

        Brother Frankus.

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        Yup this I get, now ... how did I get a negative posting for asking a question? Is my appraisal wrong or does someone resent the spectrum colours?

        Brother Frankus.

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