Cool/useful short examples of Perl?

[Dave Hodgkinson]

On 30 May 2011, at 21:02, Uri Guttman wrote:

>>>>>> "D" == Denny  <2011 at denny.me> writes:
> 
>  D> On Mon, 2011-05-30 at 13:10 -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
>>> if you think those are complex, you haven't seen enough perl! :)
> 
>  D> I'm trying to think about the target audience, rather than show how
>  D> clever I am.
> 
> that isn't clever in my book. the slurp thing is only one simple regex
> in list context.

And there's the problem.