Re: grep text (alternative)

Are you sure this doesn't belong in Obfuscated Code? I'm still scratching my head after five minutes.

This looks like a lot of cargoculted snippets, mostly stolen from ObfuPerl or Golf. I mean, I have been accused of writing short cryptic code before, so for me to say that to you, I hope you understand the significance of that. {grin}

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Re^2: grep text (alternative) by Tanktalus (Canon) on Mar 28, 2005 at 21:33 UTC
Five minutes? Reading it backwards, it's clear and obvious¹ that it's a perlish implementation of grepping through all files in a series of directories. It takes a sub as the first param, which is used to determine if a given line matches or not, the rest of the params are the directory names to look in. It returns the list of files that have a match. ¹ No, not really.	[reply]
Re^2: grep text (alternative) by songahji (Friar) on Mar 28, 2005 at 21:17 UTC
Good idea, let me move it.	[reply]
Re^3: grep text (alternative) by strictvars (Sexton) on Apr 08, 2005 at 13:20 UTC
It's surely not easy to read!	[reply]
Re^4: grep text (alternative) by songahji (Friar) on Apr 11, 2005 at 15:50 UTC
It's a LISP style, and it's tought to read. I was bored.	[reply]