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From: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.perl
Subject: Re: rn[2] and funny filenames (was Re: Super Macho Hackers! )
Message-ID: <1396@kuling.UUCP>
Date: 11 Feb 90 14:32:22 GMT
References: <1990Feb8.032115.5667@iwarp.intel.com>
Reply-To: jand@kuling.UUCP (Jan Dj{rv)
Organization: Dept. of Computer Systems, Uppsala University, Sweden
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In article <1990Feb8.032115.5667@iwarp.intel.com> merlyn@iwarp.intel.com (Randal Schwartz) writes:
:
:By the way, you should call rn in Perl "Child Of RN" ==> "CORN". :-)
:Then, I could say I spent all afternoon in the Corn Shell, and no one
:would suspect I was really reading news. :-)

	[stuff deleted]

:print pack('C25', grep($_ && $_ -= 256, split(/(\d\d\d)/, <<STRANGE)));
:330373371372288353366367372360357370288336357370364288360353355363357370300
:STRANGE

I thought you spent the afternoon constructing your "motto" in strange perlian
ways. :-) This last one was hairy, but shouldn't there be a trailing space?

	Jan D.