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Old 08-10-2000, 11:37 PM   #1
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For those of you interested in Perl this is pretty interesting stuff. Some of it is really amazing. If you are interested more info is available at http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/obfusc-5.html. To give you an idea of what is involved this is last years winner in catagory 4 - Print "The Perl Journal" in 256 characters or less.

Code:
#!/usr/bin/perl -l

print ocr(<<TPJ);
 #  # # ## ##  ## ##  #    #  #  # # ##  #  #  #  #
### # # #  # # #  # # #    # # # # # # # ## # # # #
 #  ### ## ##  ## ##  #    # # # # # ##  # ## ### #
 #  # # #  #   #  # # #  # # # # # # # # #  # # # #
 #  # # ## #   ## # # ## ###  #  ### # # #  # # # ##
TPJ

sub ocr{@{$-[$@++]}=split$,for(split'\n',shift);for$@(0..4){for(0..51){++$_{$_
 }if($-[$@][$_]=~$")}}@&=(-1);for(sort{$a<=>$b}keys%_){push@&,$_ if($_{$_}>4)
  }push@&,52;for$@(0..13){@{$|[$@][$_]}=@{$-[$_]}[$&[$@]+1..$&[$@+1]-1]for(0..
   4)}for(@|){**=$_;$w=@{$*[$^=$$=0]}-1;for$@(0..4){for(1..$w){$^++if$*[$@][$_
    ]ne$*[$@][$_-1]}}for(0..$w){for$@(1..4){$$++ if$*[$@][$_]ne$*[$@-1][$_]}}
     for(0..20){push@},chr$_+65if(7*(8,4,2,9,2,3,7,8,1,$@,5,4,9,10,10,6,3,8,4,
      8,8)[$_]+(5,8,3,3,4,2,1,2,8,2,7,1,5,4,6,$@,3,6,8,4,1)[$_]==7*$^+$$)}}@}}
 
Old 08-11-2000, 12:17 AM   #2
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Maybe i'm not just looking at it right but I don't see those words, just a bunch of #'s. =) Anyways I think Perl is the perfect language to hold such a competition. Too many of those RE expressions in a row is quite fiendish!
 
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Some would say that Perl is obfuscated to begin with. I think that Perl is usually quite readable, although some regexs do get pretty nasty.
BTW, The code doesn't print the #'s, it prints "THEPERLJOURNAL".
 
  


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