Hi Monks-

I have the need to collapse a nice, easy-to-read-and-maintain perl script into a butt-ugly-but-short one-liner.

Below is what I've evolved from/to. Can TRY02 be made to evolve any further (make it any shorter)?

Thanks

Craig 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dumper;

my $host = 'www.google.com';

#### TRY00: Multi-lines...
my @a = gethostbyname($host);
print "ARRAY: ", Dumper(\@a), "\n";
print "ADDRS:\n", Dumper(unpack('C4', $a[4])), "\n";

#### TRY01: One-liner...
print "ONE:\n", Dumper(unpack('C4', (gethostbyname($host))[4])), "\n";

#### TRY02: One-liner in dotted notation form...
print "TWO:\n",join('.',unpack('C4', (gethostbyname($host))[4])),"\n";

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UPDATE: Thanks to kyle++ and ikegami++ I've learned some new things. Here is the end result that I'm using: 

perl -MSocket -e 'print inet_ntoa(scalar(gethostbyname("hostname")))'

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Although I'm impressed with the "". substitution for scalar() (which is called golfing?), I decided to sacrifice the extra characters for understandability (the cost-benefit seems worth it now that the one-liner is this small). Not so butt-ugly now! Many thanks!

In reply to gethostbyname one-liner: Improvements? by cmv

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