Finite Automata Question Generator

Ok, this is no great and powerful obfu that will stump users for ages to come, it's more of a funny obfu taking advantage of the plethora of Finite Automata questions floating through the PM... So, I thought, why not get rid of the middle man. No longer do you have to wait for Clueless Newbies(tm) or Oxford Cream to come along and post a question of finite automatae, you can have hours of fun generating your own!

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

# For those of you who just can't get enough Finite Automata
# questions! ;-)

  $_=q~my@a=(['Hello','Greeti          ngs','Hi','',
  'What\'s_up','Honored_Monks         ','Ummm'],["\n
  "],['my_teacher_assigned_us         _a','I_was_wond
  ering,_if_I_wanted_to,_how_        would_I_write_a'
  ,'I_have_no_clue_when_to_st        art,_I_need_to_w
  rite_a','URGENT!_URGENT!!_U        RGENT!!!_I_neeeee
  d_help_with_this._Can_someo       ne_tell_me_how_to_
  write_or_gi                       ve_me_some_code_to_
  perform_ope                      rations_of'],['_fini
  te_automata                      ._'],['The_requireme
  nts_can_be_                      found_at_this_URL:_ht
  tp://www.my                     skool.edu/  class/home
  work/finite_automata/do_i       t_yourself  /assignment
  1.htm.','It_must_be_able_      to_process_  up_to___RAN
  D___states_over_the_alpha      bet_includ    ing_1,3_and
  _7._Run_these_test_string     s_against_i    t..._1337_3
  1337_133t_and_suX#r.','It     _need_to_do    _something_
  with_states_and_an_alphab     et,_but_I\      'm_not_good
  _with_geography_so_really    _need_help!      ','','The_c
  ode_I_have_                  started_looks_like_this:_#inc
  lude_<stdio                 .h>__void_main()_{_printf("Hel
  lo_World\n"                 );_}..._if_anyone_can_tell_me_
  where_to_go                 _from_here_I_would_greatly_appr
  eciate_it.'                ],["\n________________"],['Thank
  _You','Oh,_                and_I_need_this_by_Friday','Pleas
  e_please_PL               EEEZ!','','Thank_you_for_this_wond
  erful_site!               ','I_send_you_this_file_in_order_t
  o_have_your               _advice','c            lueless_newb
  ie','pearl_              user'],["\n"            ]);for(@a){m
  y@b=@$_;$_=              $b[rand@b];s             /__RAND__/in
  t(rand(30))             /ge;s/_/chr(              32)/eg;print
  ;}~;s/\s//g             ;eval$_;####              by Suaveant!!
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Update semicolon after use strict

- Ant
- Some of my best work - Fish Dinner

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Re: Finite Automata Question Generator by strfry() (Monk) on Oct 05, 2001 at 16:38 UTC
haha! ++ for "Oh, and I need this by Friday." (8 strfry()	[reply]
Re: Finite Automata Question Generator by Hero Zzyzzx (Curate) on Oct 05, 2001 at 20:45 UTC
`print "What does Oxford Cream mean?\n\n"; print "Oxford Cream means ".$$Oxford_Cream."\n";` [download] <Stupid way of asking what Oxford Cream refers to> -Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from doubletalk.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Re: Finite Automata Question Generator by suaveant (Parson) on Oct 05, 2001 at 20:51 UTC
Oxford Cream refers to chatterbox discussion as to the fact that the flood of Finite Automata questions the other day apparently were from a CS class at Oxford University... Update Someone referred to them as The Oxford Cream, but I'm not sure who... - Ant - Some of my best work - Fish Dinner	[reply]
Re: Finite Automata Question Generator by ambrus (Abbot) on Feb 28, 2004 at 21:29 UTC
Very good obfu. However it won't compile for me unless I put a semicolon after `use strict`. Update: it turns out that it does compile, but only with older perls. The feature of the strict pragma got fixed out somewhere near perl 5.8.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Finite Automata Question Generator by Anonymous Monk on Aug 09, 2009 at 09:26 UTC
ca i convert dfa to nfa	[reply]

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