John Fisher wrote:

> I am trying to figure out how clever it actually is.
> I reversed \L\u with \u\L expecting different results and got the same
> result. Another Company Name Ltd
> 
> Why didn't reversing the metacharacters change the results.
> 

[snip]

> 
> $pt=~s/(\w+)/\u\L$1/g
> 
> $pt=~s/(\w+)/\L\u$1/g
> 

because \L\u and \u\L is exactly the same:

[panda]$ perl -MO=Deparse -e 's/(\w+)/\L\u$1/g; s/(\w+)/\u\L$1/g'
s/(\w+)/\u\L$1\E/g;
s/(\w+)/\u\L$1\E/g;
-e syntax OK
[panda]$


david
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$_=q?015001450154015401570040016701570162015401440041?,local$",split$`;**=*_,
map{$#.=qq~chr(@_[$_<<1..$*<<1|3]),~}grep{~$_&1}0..s~.~~g-1;*_=*#,print+eval,

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