Bryan Harris wrote:

> >> perl -lpe '}{*_=*.}{' file
> >
> > Ooh, an obfuscated verbose way of writing:
> >
> > perl -lpe'}{$_=$.' file
>
> Huh?  Could someone explain this?  The "}{" makes no sense to me...

Well, as Momma used to say:
"Just look the other way.  Ignore it, and maybe it will go away..."

I would not be at all surprised if the code above works, and does *something*.
I just prefer to use code that says what it is doing.

Joseph


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