<>!*''#             waka waka bang splat tick tick hash
^@`$$-              carat at back-tick dollar dollar dash
*!'$_               splat bang tick dollar underscore
%*<>#4              percent splat waka waka number four
&)../               ampersand right-paren dot dot slash
{~|**SYSTEM HALTED  curly bracket tilde pipe splat splat crash

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For the record I use

  • In my BASIC days chr$ was "chr bucks"
  • For perl I tend to stick to English punctuation names 
    ('$'=>'dollar',
 '@'=>'array'||'ary',
 '%'=>'hash'||'percent',
 '#'=>'hash',
 '!'=>'bang',
 '#!'=>'shebang',
 '&'=>'ampersand',
 '*'=>'star',
 '/'=>'slash',
 '\\'=>'back-slash',
 "'"=>'tick',
 '`'=>'back-tick',
 '"'=>'quote"||'quot', #not usually pronounced
 '~'=>'tilde',         #long E
 '?'=>'question mark,  #hook is cooler but it never occurs to me
 '|'=>'pipe',
 '['=>'left bracket',  #These rarely need
 ']'=>'right bracket',#to be pronounced
 '{'=>'left curly(?: brace)',
 '}'=>'right curly(?: brace)',
 '<'=>'less than'||'waka',
 '>'=>'greater than'||'waka',
 ...  #dot dot dot, in this case however yadda yadda yadda
);

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    I read $_[1] as "array underscore sub 1" or worst case simply "at underscore 1".

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    perl -pe "s/\b;([mnst])/'\1/mg"

    In reply to Re: How do I pronounce all this stuff by belg4mit
    in thread How do I pronounce all this stuff by erikharrison

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