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[FWP] Shortest scalarizer?

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Hi,

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:19:01PM -0500, Steve Lane wrote:
> $ perl -le 'print ~~localtime'
> Fri Mar 30 12:18:03 2001

Treating $_ with impunity...

    perl -le 's..localtime.e.print'

Replace . with one of ;,&^|*+/ (among others?) to taste.

Hardly shorter, but possibly fun...

Wesley.

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