I thought your idea extremely clever.

It occurred to me that you could remove ALL of the quotation marks, by carrying the idea further ... 

sub I      {$O=$_[0]}
sub put    {$_[0]}
sub the    {$_[0]}
sub J      {'J'.$_[0]}
sub in     {$_[0]}
sub RAPH   {82.65.80.72}
sub remove {$O=~s~$_[0]~~;print$O."\n"}
sub R      {'R'}

I put the J in RAPH and remove the R

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How it works ...
First, delineating the order of evaluation:

  Expression:  (I (put (the (J (in (RAPH)))))) and (remove (the (R)))

Subroutines "put", "the" and "in" just return their single argument, so they are all effectively NOOPs. This reduces the expression to:

  Expression:  (I ( ( (J ( (RAPH)))))) and (remove ( (R)))

= Expression: (I (J RAPH)) and (remove R)

Now, subroutine "RAPH" returns "RAPH", and subroutine "J" prepends a 'J' to the argument passed to it. So (J RAPH) equates to "JRAPH":

  Expression:  (I "JRAPH") and (remove R)

Then, subroutine "I" assigns its argument to $O (the variable is an uppercase 'o', for "obscure:, "obtuse", and "obfuscated" :-).  Finally, the subroutine "remove" takes a single argument (in this case 'R', which was returned from subroutine "R"), removes it from the variable $O, and prints the result.

    Result:  [$x set to "JRAPH"] and [$x =~ s/R//, and then print $x]

Note that it also causes remove() to actually perform the remove.

In reply to Re^3: I put the J in JAPH by liverpole
in thread I put the J in JAPH by muba

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