[hbpm] Puzzle

[Daniel Hopkirk]

Hmmm..... Looks like a challenge. Could you please just clarify that the
first bit is two single quotes and not one double quite, as my retarded
windows email program renders them the same!   '' !=  "

Ta.


Regards,
Daniel Hopkirk
http://hawkesbay.pm.org
ICQ#:39905948

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Woolley" <george at metaart.org>
To: <hawkesbay at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 19, 2003 7:48 PM
Subject: [hbpm] Puzzle


> Here's a puzzle of sorts.
>
> A line of Perl code fell off the dining room table
> and was shattered.
> The letters ended up all over the floor.
> Somehow in the confusion,
> all the space characters were destroyed.
> Noone knows how many there were originally.
> (And noone cares.)
> Some anal-obsessive nerd (me) has
> organized the letters as follows
> with the hope that someone
> will reconstruct the line.
>
> ''..;Haabegikmnopprrstwy
>
> Your mission, should you accept it,
> is to reconstruct the line
> for the anal obsessive nerd.
>
> Hints:
> 1) It is known that the original line
> was simple enough
> that everyone on this mailing list would
> be capable of reading it.
> Trust me on this.
> 2) That's 5 special characters including
> two single quotes and no double quotes.
>
> Request: Please send your solution(s)
> to george at metaart.org,
> thus giving someone else a chance
> to solve it.
>
>
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