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Post #186,891 by ben_tilly 12/13/04 3:01:34 PM Reply	I find it mildly amusing that... there is some utility to do rot-13, but I find it easier to just write a Perl script to do it. \nperl -pe 'tr/a-z/n-za-m/'\n I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)
Post #186,919 by tuberculosis 12/13/04 5:47:48 PM 8/21/07 12:39:59 PM Reply	That's not a perl script its just tr called by extraneous perl glue. OK, maybe that is a perl script. But I'm working really hard to see the perl value add on that one. :-P "The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." --Albert Einstein "This is still a dangerous world. It's a world of madmen and uncertainty and potential mental losses." --George W. Bush Edited by tuberculosis Aug. 21, 2007, 12:39:59 PM EDT Expand All History
Post #186,920 by ChrisR 12/13/04 5:49:20 PM Reply	Built in SED and AWK
Post #186,933 by ben_tilly 12/13/04 6:58:34 PM Reply	It is simple I know that Perl is a swiss army chainsaw. Therefore I don't have to remember where that blade originally was to be found because it is part of Perl. Besides, on any machine where I've resided for a while, I know that Perl is there. I don't know that the rest of the Unix toolset is. In fact until you pointed out that it exists, I'd never looked for a tr utility. Now that I have, I know where another Perl operator came from, and I'll blissfully forget about the tr utility. Its existence is one more thing that I can forget. YMMV, and in this case it probably does. Cheers, Ben I have come to believe that idealism without discipline is a quick road to disaster, while discipline without idealism is pointless. -- Aaron Ward (my brother)

Books: The Golden Compass and The Subtle Knife - (inthane-chan) - (6) - Dec. 13, 2004, 12:41:31 PM EST

I find it mildly amusing that... - (ben_tilly) - (3) - Dec. 13, 2004, 03:01:34 PM EST

That's not a perl script - (tuberculosis) - (2) - Aug. 21, 2007, 12:39:59 PM EDT

Built in SED and AWK -NT - (ChrisR) - Dec. 13, 2004, 05:49:20 PM EST

It is simple - (ben_tilly) - Dec. 13, 2004, 06:58:34 PM EST

Are kids looking for this sort of thing? - (static) - (1) - Dec. 13, 2004, 09:50:05 PM EST

I read Mein Kamp at 10, heinlen at 9 - (daemon) - Dec. 13, 2004, 11:15:51 PM EST

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