Along those lines, everything I learned about obfuscating perl code, I learned from here.

And I took notes.

And to make sure I could find them again, I added them to my home node. Much like some of the other regular obfuscators have.

Take a gander through the pages of [id://Obfuscated Code] and check out the home nodes of some of the authors. You're likely to find a wealth of information and ideas about obfuscating code.

Also, DE-obfuscating some of the higher-ranked obfuscations REALLY helps in understanding how to create jems of your own. Try a little perl -MO=Deparse, adding your own whitespace, etc... and you'll start to gain your own insight.

$,=42;for(34,0,-3,9,-11,11,-17,7,-5){$*.=pack'c'=>$,+=$_}for(reverse s
+plit//=>$*
){$%++?$ %%2?push@C,$_,$":push@c,$_,$":(push@C,$_,$")&&push@c,$"}$C[$#
+C]=$/;($#C
>$#c)?($ c=\@C)&&($ C=\@c):($ c=\@c)&&($C=\@C);$%=$|;for(@$c){print$_^
+$$C[$%++]}
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