This post is a lot like my other post, but instead of CODE tags, i'm going to use the character entities for [ and ] blah blah blah

#!/usr/local/bin/perl -w
while (<>) {
  my @foo = do_stuff($_);
  print $foo[1];
}
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...I might even break up my program, with more natural text -- which describes the program I'm writting, and in which i may also want to use a [ or a ] (which are now escaped entities). here's where i mention $foo[1] (using tt tags, and the character entites)

Now i'll finish the real code in my post...

sub do_stuff {
    return split /a/, @_;
}
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Now, if people click the "d/l code" link on my post, they will acctually be able to run the code i have posted.

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