ASCII art maker

[thomas895]

Albeit very simple, I thought I'd share.

#!/usr/bin/perl
my%cd=reverse('a'=>'$','='=>'5','7'=>"'",'d'=>'1',','=>'%','2'=>'r','y
+'=>'(','1'=>')','"'=>'3','t'=>'@','e'=>'{','>'=>'4','s'=>'n',"\n"=>'h
+','c'=>'"','('=>' ','$'=>';','\\'=>'c','r'=>'d',
':'=>'9','h'=>"\n",'.'=>',','@'=>'t','['=>'\\',';'=>':','f'=>'m','i'=>
+'}','n'=>'y',' '=>'s','{'=>'>',']'=>'l','3'=>'[','%'=>'o','9'=>'f','m
+'=>'=','_'=>']','l'=>'a','4'=>'2','p'=>'.',
')'=>'e',"'"=>'i','}'=>'7','5'=>'_','o'=>'p');my$r='';while(<DATA>){$r
+.=$_;}my$p='';foreach(split("",$r)){$p.=$cd{$_};}chop$p;eval($p)and(p
+rint($@));
__DATA__
=(s;"
$ds5sioi:h=(s;1{mss5s\hssss\s3n9_3%s3"9)3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n923%s3"9[3
+%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9r3%s3"9'3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9)3%s3"9f3%s3y9)3sl%h
+ssss\s3n9r3%s3"9'3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9r3%s3"9'3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9r3
+%s3"9'3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9r3%s3"9r3%s3n9[3%s3"9r3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n
+9r3%s3"9r3%s3n9[3%s3"9r3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9r3%s3"9r3%s3n9[3%s3"9r3%s
+3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9r3%s3"9'3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9r3%s3"9'3%s3y9)3sl%hss
+ss\s3n9r3%s3"9'3%s3y9)3sl%hssss\s3n9r3%s3"9'3%s3y9)3slhl:h=(son"s5s h
+ssssns54s3s3%hssss"s54s;"
$d%hssssys54s3cy3he:hhmpd{$"
s t;1{mes>h=(stas5st;]:hssssmpd{$"
s taes>hssssssss=(s s;@%s;$ses5sn.a}@ s393%s;]se:hssssssssmpd{$"
s s)s,,s;$ses>hssssssssssss.d}y@s;n">;@7:hhssssssss7hssss7h7ssssshsshs
+hshshsh

(Note: you may want to download it, or some of it won't work)
Enjoy! :)

[trizen]

my $char = '%';

my (@table) = (
               'c:1', 's:3', 'c:1', 's:2', 'c:1', 's:2',
               'c:4', 's:2', 'c:5', 's:2', 'c:1', 'n:1',
               'c:2', 's:2', 'c:1', 's:2', 'c:1', 's:2',
               'c:1', 's:5', 'c:1', 's:6', 'c:1', 'n:1',
               'c:1', 's:1', 'c:1', 's:1', 'c:1', 's:2',
               'c:1', 's:2', 'c:1', 's:5', 'c:5', 's:2',
               'c:1', 'n:1', 'c:1', 's:2', 'c:2', 's:2',
               'c:1', 's:2', 'c:1', 's:5', 'c:1', 'n:1',
               'c:1', 's:3', 'c:1', 's:2', 'c:1', 's:2',
               'c:4', 's:2', 'c:5', 's:2', 'c:1', 'n:1',
              );

my (%sc) = (
            's' => ' ',
            'c' => $char,
            'n' => "\n",
           );

foreach my $data (@table) {
    my ($c, $t) = split(/:/, $data, 2);
    print $sc{$c} x $t;
}
__END__
# Code used to generate the table
while ($ascii_art =~ /(\S+| +|\n+)/g) {
    my $m = $1;
    my ($l, $o) = (length($m), ord($m));
    push @table,
        $o == 32 ? "s:$l"
      : $o == 10 ? "n:$l"
      :            "c:$l";
}

[cavac]

Nice one!

Say, would you be able to change the long lines in the code in a way th ey also resemble some simple ascii art? That would be doubly cool ;-)