the set:
I was not long at my new job when i wrote some little tools for my personal ease, when my boss looked over my shoulder.

 >> What is this?
<< That is perl. It is a language...
>> I know what is is, we donīt use that, itīs whacky.
>> But,
<< No but. We donīt use it!
>> Ah, ok. .oO(a*****e)Oo.

Two or three weeks later, i looked over the bosses shoulder while he tried to write a filter for a textfile (in VB) with heavy use of index(), substring() and ugly long if/else constructions. It ended up with 70 lines of code and three hours work.
I let him do that and in the meantime i prepared a one-liner in the 
perl -n -e "print if //" infile>outfile

[download]
style (one line, 2 minutes).

When i showed it to him he was first angry and then amazed. And since that day we use perl a lot and i am the companies "chief of perl".

holli, regexed monk

In reply to Re: Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story by holli
in thread Your Favorite Heroic Perl Story by friedo

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