Re: What does belg4mit's signature do?

As far as i can tell, it will print each line of STDIN to STDOUT with any semi-colon preceded by a word charater and followed by one of the letters m, n, s, or t converted to a single quote. I don't know why one would want to do such a thing, but that appears to be what that does.

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Re^2: What does belg4mit's signature do? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 30, 2004 at 20:31 UTC
I don't know why one would want to do such a thing It's a common typo to write "don;t" (etc) instead of "don't". Maybe he does this a lot and is asking us to ignore any such typos?	[reply]
Re^3: What does belg4mit's signature do? by Vennis (Pilgrim) on Sep 30, 2004 at 20:49 UTC
Or maybe he's a semi-colon phobic ;-)	[reply]
Re^4: What does belg4mit's signature do? by ikegami (Patriarch) on Sep 30, 2004 at 20:57 UTC
Then wouldn't `perl -wpe "s/\b\073([mnst])/'$1/g"` or `perl -wpe "s/\073/'/g"` be more apporpriate? :)	[reply] [d/l] [select]