I don't actually update the `Line of the Day' every day, but some months I update it pretty often. This is one of those months, and I find today's Line to be particularly delightful: $lexer = '((?s)' . (join '|', map {quotemeta(pack 'S', $_) . ('..' x $opn[$_]) } (0.. $#opn) ) . ')'; For the explanation, see http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/LOD/ All Lines of the Day are guaranteed authentic, from real programs, and not deliberately obfuscated. Mark-Jason Dominus mjd@plover.com ==== Want to unsubscribe from this list? (Don't you love us anymore?) ==== Well, if you insist... Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to ==== fwp-request@technofile.org