[hbpm] Puzzle

[George Woolley]

Could be a challenge,
though once solved it may seem ...
(Quiet George! Two hints is enough.)
The two hints are worth looking at.
The second hint hopefully provides the clarification you request.

      -- George

On Tuesday 18 March 2003 11:50 pm, Daniel Hopkirk wrote:
> 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.