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I'm sure I can't be the only one that this happens to. How many people out there find themselves just doing normal things and all of a sudden, your mind translates something totally unrelated into code.

Example1: I was at work the other day and somebody noted something on the white-board as if finish = 0300 then blah blah blah. Of course my mind didn't like that, I was compelled to go to the board and correct it to properly read if finish == 0300 blah blah blah.

Example2: Everything becomes a regular expression in your head to the point where you wish everything in life could allow the use of regular expressions.

Example3: Sometimes I will be writing an email to the non-technical people I work with and I'll realize I have started including print statements, or some other perl function in my email (like I see on here all the time s/boss/idiot/g).

I am sure there are many more examples. Let me hear some!

-Kevin

my $a='62696c6c77667269656e6440676d61696c2e636f6d';
while ($a=~m/(^.{2})/s)
{print unpack('A',pack('H*',"$1"));$a=~s/^.{2}//s;}
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In reply to Thinking in perl by K_M_McMahon

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