in reply to JAPHs that depend on the version of the module

I feel it's worth adding that the original JAPH used -E instead of -e, thus increasing the likeliness the right version of CGI.pm was actually installed.

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Re^2: JAPHs that depend on the version of the module
by Tux (Canon) on Jul 31, 2008 at 12:19 UTC

    Yes, but that is no guarantee at all, as all my CGI's in 5.10 were newer than that. As I just posted on p5p, here's some more info.

    For CGI 3.38, the shortest version would be:

    perl -lap -0e'BEGIN{close STDIN;require CGI}$_="@F[424,1010,96,16674]"'

    CGI has the longest pod from the core .pm's, so getting a success is relatively easy. It also happens to be the *only* CORE .pm that contains these four words. I found no other modules (even none-CORE) that enable this short version.

    Close come:

    • POE (1.003)
      perl -lap -0e'BEGIN{close STDIN;require POE}$F[2821]=substr$F[2821],-12,6;$_="@F[610,865,2455,2821]"'
    • XML::Twig 3.32
      perl -lap -0e'BEGIN{close STDIN;require XML::Twig}chop($_="\L@F[653,11676,5,19071]")'
    • Text::CSV_XS 0.52 (with a bit extra obfuscation)
      perl -lap -0e'BEGIN{close STDIN;require Text::CSV_XS}$F[$#F/6-$=]=~s/=b/h/;$_="@F[257,679,435,791]er"'

    Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
Re^2: JAPHs that depend on the version of the module
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Jul 31, 2008 at 13:01 UTC
    Only temporarily, as all future Perl 5 will support -E.