Re: [FWP] perl5 is 5

[Mark Thomas <mthomas@jprc.com>]

Andy Lester writes:
    >> print$_="Happy birthday to you,\n"x2;s/,$/./;s/to.*/dear perl5,/;print

    > No, 'cause it eats the \n.

But thanks to the idea from Steve Lane I've trimmed it down to 68
characters:

$_="Happy birthday to you,\n"x4;s/to.*(,\n.*),$/dear perl5$1./;print

-Mark

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