Cute!

It must have been fun to generate the encoded string...

Spoilers follow (and I'm not sure if readmore will work or not...):

I had a vague inkling that fibonacci numbers were involved because of the ($i,$j)=($i+$j,$i) operation, and the comment that came with the code.

So, using Deparse:

$ perl -MO=Deparse obfu.pl $" = ''; print "@{[&{sub { ($i, $j, @_) = (1, 1, split(//, 'hrP kc eeatenltarohsr u.J', 0)); while (@_) { foreach $_ (1 .. $i) { @_ = (pop @_, @_); } push @t, shift @_; ($i, $j) = ($i + $j, $i); } @t; } ;}];}\n"; obfu.pl syntax OK
That makes things a lot clearer. The @_ array is rotated fibo(n) times, and then the first element is shoved onto the end of @t.

++!
--
Mike


In reply to Re: A "natural" JAPH (may take several seconds to run) by RMGir
in thread A "natural" JAPH (may take several seconds to run) by ruscoekm

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