in reply to /japh/ee

Very tricky++! And it works with strict and warnings, too! In preparing my analysis I was initially fooled by a subtle use of
character ranges in the translation operator.
#! perl # original code after perl -MO=Deparse and perltidy # s/us(?=r)/he/, print($_) # if ( $_ = "(*_=*')=~y#!perl -e hk #rJust -`neocheat#,*_;\n$^X hacke +r!" ) =~ # s[.*;][($_ = $&) =~ tr/*/$/, $_;]ee; use strict; use warnings; # analysis $_ = "(*_=*')=~y#!perl -e hk #rJust -`neocheat#,*_;\n$^X hacker!"; # $^X = $EXECUTABLE_NAME must be "perl" for this to work $_ =~ s[.*;][($_ = $&) =~ tr/*/$/, $_;]ee; # $MATCH and $POSTMATCH # $& = "(*_=*')=~y#!perl -e hk #rJust -`neocheat#,*_;"; # $' = "\nperl hacker!"; # first eval # $_ = "($_=$')=~y#!perl -e hk #rJust -`neocheat#,$_;"; # tr/// with [ -e] shown partially expanded # !perl -`abcde hk # rJust -`neocheat # second eval # $_ = "\nJust anotusr"; # s/// # $_ = "\nJust anotusr\nperl hacker!"; s/us(?=r)/he/; # $_ = "\nJust another\nperl hacker!"; print($_);