This year, I decided to send my friends a different kind of "Merry Christmas" card. I think a little and ended up with this little, poorly perl-coded "Merry Christmas" whish. I'm sure that every monk here has a way to do this, but this is my Merry Christmas Card. Please accept it with love. The text is in portuguese, and says "Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year for all my friends!".

#!/usr/bin/perl
$_=q,


                   4
                  665
                 6c697
                a204e61
               74616c206
              520756d2050
             726f737065726
            f20416e6f204e6f
           766f206120746f646
          f73206f7320616d6967
                 6f732
                 10aH*

       Merry Christmas for All!!


,;($_,$x)=m;([^H]+)(..);;s;\s+;;g;$_=pack$x,$_;print
__END__

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