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in thread small is beautiful

$_->{$.} # $_ becomes reference to hash # $_ returns HASH(memory address) s:.?(.)..(.): # regex which "captures" 2nd 'A' and 5th '(' symb +ols # '..' range operator returns # ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ # from 'A' to '(' # see perldoc perlop print # 'Prints a string or a list of strings' (($1..$2)[9,0,15,7]) # only 9,0,15,7 array elements are interesting :e # /e modifier which evaluates right side # as an expression