I'm delighted at the way you got the crypt() output to come out the way you wanted it to. How did you arrange that? Did you just use trial and error to try input strings until you found the ones you needed? Or is there something clever going on that I missed?

If I were doing this, I would have mixed up the $2... variables: 

eval"$1('$6','$7'),$1('$2','$3'),$1('$4','$9'),$1('$8','$5')";

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and then permuted the initial value for $_ to match the new order, but that's just me.

In reply to Re: Another First JAPH by Dominus
in thread Another First JAPH by life_monger

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