It's the thought that counts

Sigh...

I think this proves I have no talent for obfuscation. Ah well, a few downvotes might lower my embarrassingly high XP to nodes ratio.

But anyway.

print "Not an Obfuscation\n\n"; # BooK food ;)

@_=#Happy Birthday ailie
map{chr}112,114,105,110,
116,32,109,97,112,123,99
,104,114,125,54,54,44,49
,49,52,44,49,48,53,44,49
,48,51,44,49,48,52,44,49
,49,54,44,51,50,44,57,56
,44,57,55,44,49,48,56,44
,49,48,56,44,49,49,49,44
,49,49,49,44,49,49,48,44
,49,49,53,44,52,52,44,51
,50,44,56,48,44,49,48,49
,44,49,49,52,44,49,48,56
,44,51,50,44,55,55,44,49
,49,49,44,49,49,48,44,49
,48,55,44,49,49,53,44,49
,48,44,57,57,44,49,48,49
,44,49,48,56,44,49,48,49
,44,57,56,44,49,49,52,44
,57,55,44,49,49,54,44,49
,48,53,44,49,49,48,44,49
,48,51,44,52,52,44,51,50
,44,57,55,44,49,48,53,44
,49,48,56,44,49,48,53,44
,49,48,49,44,51,50,44,49
,49,53,44,49,48,57,44,49
,48,53,44,49,48,56,44,49
,48,49,44,49,49,53,44,53
,57,44,49,48,44,55,50,44
,57,55,44,49,49,50,44,49
,49,50,44,49,50,49,44,51
,50,44,54,54,44,49,48,53
,44,49,49,52,44,49,49,54
,44,49,48,52,44,49,48,48
,44,57,55,44,49,50,49,44
,52,52,44,51,50,44,49,49
,53,44,57,57,44,49,49,52
,44,49,48,53,44,57,56,44
,49,48,49,44,49,48;for$x
(@_){$_.=$x};eval
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--
Tom Waddington

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Re: It's the thought that counts by BooK (Curate) on Feb 14, 2001 at 17:21 UTC
Well, then at least I don't have to vote on it... `;-)` Strange, you actually made your program several times longer than the original (the part that's `eval`'ed). Not that size does really matter, but I was kinda puzzled by all those 44...	[reply]
Re: It's the thought that counts by flay (Pilgrim) on Feb 14, 2001 at 22:37 UTC
You were puzzled? Maybe it's not as bad as I thought. `:)` To be honest I had much grander plans for this one but, depending on how you look at it, I ran out of either talent or time. Maybe I should have postponed it until next year. -- Tom Waddington	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: It's the thought that counts by BooK (Curate) on Feb 14, 2001 at 23:59 UTC
Well, even though I don't like "obfuscation" schemes that include calls to `crypt`, `unpack` or `chr`, I have to admit I don't know the ASCII table by heart. :-) So, I noticed all those 44s, decided I could at least change the `eval` for a `print`, and see what it actually did (mind you, I didn't guess... but the way to do it is still, er, poor). If the main point in an obfuscation is based on `s///`, `crypt`, or `chr` to make it hard to understand, you can be sure I won't like it. Try to do the same thing in a completely unnatural and complicated way, and there you will have me try to understand what it does, parsing it by hand, and so on...	[reply]