some of the best hours of my life

[Vynce]

...were lost to this.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w



         use                        strict;use vars(                  
+'$k');
                   ($a,$b )=        (1**3).       11**                
+  (2)
            .    (0**2).  2**3     ;substr(    $a,0,1,    reverse     
+ $a);
        $a =~   s[(2)]    [ $1 *   ($b++?($k=$b):$b--      ,$b++)     
+ ]ge;
        my@j=             ($a=     "0$a")                  =~/(...)/g 
+; my
          @a=             split     //,            gethostbyname("in.4
+ml.org");
        sub r    {(shift)+(pop)     -(1-                  shift)}     
+ sub l
 {(     (pop)  +(shift)   +(pop)    )/3}                   my(@p,     
+ @h,@k)
 =(     30,-6   ,0);      for my    $i((                  $k/=$k)     
+ ..+@p)
  {      push    (@p,     l@p [     -3..                  -1])and     
+ push
   @p,r@p[-3      ..-1];$i= shift    @p                    unless     
+ @p%2}



#yes,i         know...
{$k*=$_       for(1..
 +@a);       @h=($k--
 ,$k);      sub h{   my$c   =($_[  -2]+$_[-1])%     $k++;push@_  ,$c,(
+($c+$_[-1
  ]+$_      [-2]-    10)%  $k++   );       shift    if($k        %4)%3
+;    @_}}
    @h=     h(@h)      for(1..    @j);     @k=     (pop         (@h),p
+op  (@h),
     push  @h,(         pop(      @h)))    ;push   @h,(         @k*pop
+(@k));@k=
      grep {           $_|=       ord('`   ')}@h;  print        pack(
      "c",$_          )for        (map     {$j[$_] +ord($a      [$_])}
+0
      ..3),(        @k+1)         **2/2,   @h,ord  ('@'^'`')     ,@j,2
+**5,(
       grep       {$_+=           96;($_   %10)and  ($_%10)-6}    @p),
+$#j+$#a+
        @j;




#i c
#hea
#ted

[VSarkiss]

I can't get this to run. I get:

Use of uninitialized value at x line 10.
Illegal modulus zero at x line 22.

I'm using 5.005_02 on HP-UX (PA-RISC 1.1). Is it a version thing?

[tachyon]

Works fine for me under win32 and 5.6.0 It does have a gethostbyname lurking in there at line 10 which is used to set @a via a split. The next appearance of @a is line 20 where it is used to set $k. $k is used as a mod value in line 22 so if gethostbyname is not implemented on your system it would give the result you note.

tachyon

[Vynce]

Note: this looks better with "code wrap" set to something reasonable, like 80 cols. (:

and yes, as tachyon pointed out it does rely on a gethostbyname() call; if you don't have that, it won't work.

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