s{}{${\(<<'.')}};s.^ +..mg.y.\t..d; there are three virtues of truly great programmers i will list them here they desire to limit the total effort that is expended the clever coders write stuff useful to us all not just to themselves they write their line noise so that we may leave at five not working all night and thus they reduce overall work that is done themselves plus our own their code can be seen in many magazines and all over the web we all hate to wait especially perl coders so their code runs fast it predicts your needs makes the proper adjustments to do The Right Thing writing perl fast is easy, you can omit the $_ (the default var rules!) perl coders won't wait long to find if it will work -e does one-liners perl coders are proud they show off their code to us and so make it good to insult a perl program is to insult the coder who wrote it so they code so well, impeccably, perfectly thus the third virtue . # this is the setup # please do not treat this line noise # as real syllables @`=split//;@_=map{ord}split//,v22. 2.149.2.368.1.286.2.442.5.663.3. 299.3.123.2.17.1.36.2.862.3.118.2. 665.4.141.2.161.2.96.3.534.3.387. 6.30.1.584.2.0.1.48.2.253.2.95.4.0 ;_:@_&&do{$%=$_[--$#_];$.=$_[--$#_ ];print$`[$.++]for 1..$%;goto _};