in reply to My second Japh...

Alright, here it goes:
$_='Just'; $_='"...erxpnU;yerC;erugban;gfhW"gavec';
Easy to see, just setting $_ to something, then resetting it.
$-='another Perl';
Useless; $- is the number of lines left on the page of the currently selected output channel, and cannot be a string value (or a negative value). $- remains zero after this asignment.
y/\\abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ; /'nopqrstuvwxyzabcdefghijklm /;
A simple translation on $_: Now the value is almost the reverse of "print "Just another Perl hacker..."", we just need one more translation to get it there:
$-='Hacker'; #again, this is just filler y/!!ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ ; /''NOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGHIJKLM /; #here's that translation I spoke of
Now, the string is ready to be eval'ed
eval reverse $_;
Again, this is just filler, it evaluates to a string, which is a true value, but does nothing.
''.''.''.''.''.'print "Just another Perl Hacker"';

The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
Stephen Rawls

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Re: Re: My second Japh...
by chipmunk (Parson) on Jun 18, 2001 at 23:39 UTC
    If eval reverse $_ is just filler, where's the part that prints "Just another Perl Hacker"?

    It's certainly not ''.''.''.''.''.'print "Just another Perl Hacker"';, because that's just a bunch of single-quoted strings. :)

      Mabey that was not very structured, but the prase that said it was filler applied to the code below it, I was saying that ''.''.''.''.''.'print "Just another Perl Hacker"'; was just filler. Sorry for the confusion : )

      The 15 year old, freshman programmer,
      Stephen Rawls