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Simpler, yes. Easier to understand, no - unless you use ASCII codes all day long.

Also, note BrowserUK's solution, your map can be written simply as map chr, 0x21 .. 0x7e;

Update: BrowserUK noted himself :)

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Re^4: secret code generator
by johngg (Canon) on Dec 19, 2006 at 11:32 UTC
    Easier to understand? Debateable. I feel that this

    my @chars
  = ("a".."z", "A".."Z", 0..9
    , split //, qq(!"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~));

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    looks a bit messy and it is difficult to see at a glance, or even with a long stare, if you've got them all. In fact, I think tilly will have missed one since qq{...} is going to lose the backslash so q{...} might have been better.

    $ perl -le 'print for split m{}, qq{!@#{}[\]&*};'
!
@
#
{
}
[
]
&
*
$ perl -le 'print for split m{}, q{!@#{}[\]&*};' 
!
@
#
{
}
[
\
]
&
*
$

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    Cheers,

    JohnGG

    Update: Added one-liners to show backslash behaviour

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