Not only does this not answer my question, it just helps to confirm my opinion that pseudo-hashes are evil, evil things. You should be ashamed of yourself. :)

Hie thee and thy code to the nether regions whence you were spawned, I adjure thee!

Or something like that.

Cheers,
Ovid

Update: As a bit of a spoiler, read Are pseudo-hashes worth the effort? and then reread the node above. In effect, he's creating a pseudo-hash like the following: 

$ph = [{1=>2,3=>4,5=>6,7=>8,9=>10,11=>12,13=>14,15=>16,17=>18,19=>20,2
+1=>22,23=>24,25=>26,27=>28},
           'P','a','b','c','d','e','f','g','h','i','j','k','l','m',
           'n','o','p','q','r','s','t','u','v','w','x','y','z','J',' '
+ ];

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The & and | that he uses are bitwise operators. You should be able to follow it from there.

I've noticed spoilers like this on a couple of bits of obfuscation. Do any monks have any strong feelings on this one way or the other?

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In reply to (Ovid) Re: pseudo.pl by Ovid
in thread pseudo.pl by chipmunk

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