Good first japh joshua. 
my$japh=q=815011301080222181506122815080025141102202911201=;
$[=1;my@a=(q,a,..q,u,,q, ,);
$_.=$a[join'',chop$japh,chop$japh]while length$japh; 
print;

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Here's some helpful pointers:
(My example and golf are at the end)


If you change "while length$japh" into simply "while$japh", you'll save yourself 7 characters and the length function (slightly speeding it up and making it smaller).

You can also free things up a tad by replacing "$japh" with "$_". This will allow you to change the "chop$japh" into just plain "chop" (or if you want to be strict, "chop()"). And it will also allow you to shorten that "while" even more, by making it "while$_". Oh yah, it also does away with the "my" declaration (saving 2 characters).

Now if you want to go a step further, you can change "@a" into "@_". This does away with the "my" declaration, and confuses some by having two "$_"'s. One is an array and another is a variable, so you don't have to worry about a conflict.

See the "$_.="? That's an unnecessary concatenation if your just returning it directly. So why not just make it a straight "print". (It will slow things down a bit due to the fact that print is called a number of times, but it shortens the overall length).

Rather than "join"ing with a null value, why not just concatenate the "chop"s? "join'',chop(),chop()" eq "chop().chop()". (And it's faster too).

I'll do some more digging after this example, solely for personal gratification 8^) ...

Let's see this so far:

$_=q=815011301080222181506122815080025141102202911201=;
$[=1;
@_=(q,a,..q,u,,q, ,);
print$_[chop().chop()]while$_

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This gives the same output as the original.

Now for some inno golfing...

  $_=unpack'w*','Ÿ¢ŽÞ»Ðªè„Ž¦åŠ™ÿܽƅŽŽËr'
  if@_=('a'..'u',' ');print$_[chop().chop()]
  while$_

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If that won't work for you, set "$_" equal to '714001200070121171405112714070914131001291810290' rather than using the unpack function.

Cheers,

-inno

In reply to Re: First JAPH by innominate
in thread (joshua) First JAPH by joshua

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