TPJ One-Liner #35If Dr. Seuss were a Perl programmerCourtesy of Kevin Meltzer
#!/usr/bin/perl # # Will give errors if run with -w, so don't use -w :) # Tested on NT with AS (5.005), GS (5.004_02), # and Solaris 2.6 (5.004_04) if ("a packet hits a pocket") { On: a; socket(ON, A ,PORT,"") && the bus is interrupted as a very-last-resort && the address of the memory makes your floppy disk, abort; } else { "The socket packet pocket has an"; error: to-report; } if ("your cursor finds a menu item") { "followed by a dash" && "the double clicking icon"; puts: your-items-in-the-trash && your data is corrupted cause the index("doesn't", "hash"); } else { "Your situation is hopeless" && Your system's gonna crash; } if ("the label on the cable") { On-the-table, at-your-house; Says_the; sub network {"is connected to the button on your mouse"}; BUT: Your-packets, want-to; {/tunnel to another protocol/}; that's: repeatedly-rejected; {/by the printer/}; "down the hall" && "YOUR SCREEN is all distorted"; {/by the side effects of Gauss/}; so: "your icons", in-the-window; "are as wavy as a souse"; } else { YOU: "may as well reboot" && "go out with a !"; CAUSE: /Sure as Im a poet/; THIS: suckers-gonna-hang; } print "Seuss as a tech writer - Kevin Meltzer\n"; |
TPJ One-liner #36 |
Neal Stephenson's latest novel, Cryptonomicon, includes a Perl cryptosystem code-named Pontifex. You can read about it at https://www.well.com/user/neal/cypherFAQ.html#12.
TPJ One-liner #37 |
Stripping the eighth bits from a string $s &= "\177" x length($s);
Given a string in $s, this one-liner turns all of the "funny" characters
(like à or ) into regular seven-bit ASCII characters.
It works by ANDing the bit representation of each character with 127,
which removes the eighth bit. That turns à into L and into N, for instance.
Courtesy of Tom Christiansen
TPJ One-liner #38Replacing tabs with spaces |
perl -0011 -pi -e '/\011/&&($_="$'")' filename
Courtesy of Abigail
TPJ One-Liner #39 |
Printing all capitalized words
perl -ne 'push@w,/(\b[A-Z]\S*?\b)/g;END{print"@w"}' file