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From: Philip Newton <pne-news-20010822@newton.digitalspace.net>
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Subject: Re: This is not a question ... call me slow if you like...
Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 19:54:36 +0200
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On 22 Aug 2001 09:17:04 GMT, dkcombs@panix.com (David Combs) wrote:

> In article <998311456.28496@itz.pp.sci.fi>,
> Ilmari Karonen  <usenet11554@itz.pp.sci.fi> wrote:
> >
> >Sorry.  Try the one in my .sig -- the original breaks under perl v5.6.
> >
> >-- 
> ># Ilmari Karonen -- http://www.sci.fi/~iltzu/
> >s''n4|9|21|3|n1\2||2|(_-<2_|4_`1|3\3_1\2_|3\3-_)2_|n\__/\_,_|___/\__|2\__,_|_|
> >1_|\___/\__|_|1_|\___|_|nn4_1\9|3|14|n4__/1-_)2_|1|5\3_`1|2_|1!1/2-_)2_|n3_|1\
> >___|_|2_|2_|1_|\__,_|\__|_i_\\\___|_|1)n45/n',y/n\n/\n/d,s/\d+/$"x$&/eg,print;
> 
> 
> Now, just what do we have to do to turn
> those three lines into a perl program?
> 
> (especially great would be the exact command line or
> lines we must type in.)

Type in 'perl'. That starts up your Perl interpreter and it'll wait for
you to type in a program. Copy-and-paste Ilmari's sig. If on Unix, you
can type Ctrl+D on a line by itself to terminate the program and have it
run. Otherwise, typing __END__ on a line by itself should work.

Cheers,
Philip
-- 
Philip Newton <nospam.newton@gmx.li>
That really is my address; no need to remove anything to reply.
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.