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[personal profile] sophie2009-06-22 04:19 pm

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This comm needs more posts. :D

Has anyone here made a JAPH? I made one way back in 2002 and it isn't really that great (hey, it was 6-7 years ago, give me some slack :D), but I thought I'd share it anyway:

#!/usr/bin/perl

    $smilies="jolly-               fun-resilient-
   mirthful--adorable-            enticing-sloping
   -ecstatic-happy-              delightful-enrapt-
     -rhapsodic-                  earless-grinning

                  -!melancholy-
                    -mighty-
                   appropriate-
                    accepted


-joking-cheerful                    -!rare";$smilies=~
   s/[\n \!]//g;                  $smilies=~s/--/-=/g;
    @joyful=split(               '-',$smilies);my
      $smile=":-D";             my $elation=-1;
        while($smile ne "rare"){$elation+=1;
         $smile=$joyful[$elation];if($smile
           =~/^=^?/){($smile)=$smile=~
           /.(.*)/;print" ";}@pleasing=
              split('',$smile);print
                $pleasing[($elation
                      %4)];}


There are a few Easter eggs in the source. :)
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[personal profile] marnanel2009-04-16 05:36 pm

Useful bit of code to mark a string as UTF8

When you have data in a string, Perl remembers the encoding the string's in. If you grab UTF-8 stuff out of a database or from HTTP parameters, it doesn't know what the encoding is, and it will get it wrong. This function returns the strings you passed it concatenated and marked as UTF-8:

sub mark_utf8 { pack "U0C*", unpack "C*", join('',@_); }