Greetings jesuashok,

It's a very curious line, and others have explained what it does already; however, it has a couple negatives: It's not easily understood, and it's slower than a more easily understood alternative.

use strict;
use warnings;
use Benchmark qw(cmpthese);

cmpthese(
    100000,
    {
        'ahash' => sub {
            my $pat = {qw(a - b = c ~ d ^)}->{substr($0, 0, 1)};
        }, 
        'tr'    => sub {
            (my $pat = substr($0, 0, 1)) =~ tr/abcd/-=~^/;
        },
    },
);

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The above benchmark returns this:

          Rate ahash    tr
ahash  75120/s    --  -86%
tr    541712/s  621%    --

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It's a nice trick, but I wouldn't use it anywhere except in an obfu.

gryphon
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In reply to Re: Interesting line which I read from Monk's snippets by gryphon
in thread Interesting line which I read from Monk's snippets by jesuashok

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