You're right, I should have made more interesting use of the switches. I actually sat staring at the letters and numbers for 5 minutes trying to think of something that might be vaguely amusing (if only to myself), but I gave up because (and I blame this entirely on my family) I've got a bit of a slow brain at the moment due to a quite, erm, festive festive celebration.

I disagree about using scalar reverse though - I thought it better to needlessly use a function to convert the list to a scalar, instead of just asking perl explicitly to do it. (Actually, japhy's goto sig was tempting, but I couldn't get away with ripping it off here, more's the pity.)

It was only really a half hearted attempt at anything remotely obfuscated though. I could never come up with anything half as twisted as most of the posts I've seen, but I thought I should put something since this is the Obfuscated code category.