Look into the Magic 8 Ball to find the answers you so need. This will work
WAY better than
brian's Guide to Solving Any Perl Problem for answering those tough debugging questions.
Perl Programmer: Why won't my code compile?
8 Ball: Yes, definately
You can't pay for that kind of help ;)
Props to Erudil's Camel Code whose code munging technique I used, good stuff
Instructions: copy to a file and execute as a normal perl script.
Magic 8 Ball is a registered trademark of Mattel
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
$_=q`seek(D
ATA,30,0);local$/;$_=<
DATA>;/8{6}(.*)8{6}/s;($a=$1)
=~s/\s+(8+\s+)*//g;$a=~s/X/\040/g
;my@eight=split/888/,$a;@eight=split/
8/,$eight[rand(20)];s/(\s+88\s*(8?88)?\
s+)/$b=int((length($1)-length($eight[0]
))\/2);sprintf("%-".length($1)."s","\040"
x$b.shift(@eight) )/eg;print;"88888
888888X8Outlook8 88888 Good8888Outlook8
NotXSo8Good8888 88 88 MyXReply8IsXNo8
888Don't8Count8 88888 OnXIt8888YouXMa
y8RelyXOnXIt888 88 88 8Ask8Again8Late
r8888Most8Likely 88888 8888Cannot8Predi
ct8Now8888X8Yes88 88Yes8Definitely8
888Better8NotXXTell8YouXNow8888ItXIs8Cert
ain8888Very8Doubtful8888ItXIs8Decidedly
8So8888Concentrate8and8Ask8Again8888Sig
ns8Point8ToXYes8888MyXSources8SayXNo8
888Without8a8Doubt888Reply8Hazy,8
Try8Again8888AsXIXSee8It,XY
es888888"`;s/\s//g;eval
;__DATA__
Edit: jdalbec pointed out definately if spelled definitely, teach me not
to spell check my web sources :) Thanks.
Edit2 Ack! I got code crap on the perl line in the last edit! Oops.
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