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\$\begingroup\$ Impressing one, though there is glitch: for ;;#;;; it outputs #5 instead of #2. \$\endgroup\$

manatwork
– manatwork

2017-05-22 15:24:34 +00:00
Commented May 22, 2017 at 15:24
\$\begingroup\$ How did you get this result? echo -n ';;#;;;' | perl -043pe '$_=chr(y%;%%%127)x/#/' | xxd correctly outputs 00000000: 02 on my machine. If you left off the 043, or are using a codepage where # is not ASCII 043, that would explain your result. \$\endgroup\$

Grimmy
– Grimmy

2017-05-22 15:27:28 +00:00
Commented May 22, 2017 at 15:27
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\$\begingroup\$ Oops. Sorry, I had a typo in my test. Your code works perfectly. \$\endgroup\$

manatwork
– manatwork

2017-05-22 15:32:06 +00:00
Commented May 22, 2017 at 15:32

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