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And as already demonstrated is not very difficult to "normalize" the code again with B::Deparse

Cheers Rolf
(addicted to the Perl Programming Language :)
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update

C:\>perl -MO=Deparse,-p
$,=42;for(34,0,-3,9,-11,11,-17,7,-5){$*.=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[$%++]}


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


__DATA__

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I added -p flag for parens to make precedence clearer.

most special variables are just used for obfuscation and don't serve any need.

output is - surprisingly - chargrill

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in thread The REAL reason for why they choose PHP over Perl. by Spidy

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