Obfuscation, Golfing and Secret Operators in Perl

OGSOP Obfuscation, Golﬁng and Secret Operators in Perl Perl Golf 1

Obfuscation 2

How do I impress my friends who don’t know much Perl with obfuscation? 3

With simple things 4

#!/usr/bin/perl $:?do{exit&&exit}:printquot;Just another Perl hacker,quot; 5

#!/usr/bin/perl $:?do{exit||exit}:printquot;Just another Perl hacker,quot; 6

Spaces? What spaces? $:?do{exit&&exit}:printquot;Just another Perl hacker,quot; 7

Use newlines... #!/usr/bin/perl $:? do {exit && exit } : print “Just another”. “ Perl hacker,” 8

As many as you can... #!/usr/bin/perl $:?do{ exit&& exit } :print “Jus”. “t a”. “not”. “her”. “ Pe”. “rl “. “hac”. “ker,” 9

Forget about indentation if($var) { $var = 0 } else { $var = 1 } 10

Or at least use it wrongly if($var) { $var = 0 } else { $var = 1 } 11

Semicolons: use wrongly print quot;Hello quot; ;print quot;Worldquot; 12

Semicolons: use plenty ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;print quot;Hello Worldquot;;; ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;; ;;s;;print quot;Hello Worldquot;;e;; 13

Semicolons: use alternatives $a++ ; $b-- $a++ , $b-- $a++ . $b-- $a++ .. $b-- 14

Use things indirectly s//Just another Perl hacker,/ ; print 15

Bend the rules s/ / /; y/ / /; 16

Bend the rules s; ; ; ; s { }[ ] s s s s y ; ; ;; y y y y 17

And use unneeded things ; s ; ; ; ; { };s{ }[ ] s s s s s ; y ; ; ; ; 18

Mix them together y s y s y s s y s y s y 19

Mix things up 1?s::::0 20

Mix things up 1 ? s::: : 0 21

Is it code? y//No, it is not/; 22

Is it a comment? s##No, it is not#; 23

Is it a comment? s##we want to print quot;Just another Perl hacker,quot;## 24

Is it a comment? s;;;;s ##we want to print quot;Just another Perl hacker,quot;## 25

Is it a comment? s;;;;s ##we want to print quot;Just another Perl hacker,quot;## 26

Is it a comment? s;old;new;g;s ##we want to print quot;Just another Perl hacker,quot;## 27

Is it a comment? s;old;new;g;s ##we want to print quot;Just another Perl hacker,quot;## ;s^.{11}^^&&eval; 28

Are those brackets closed? {y/}/{/} 29

WYSINWYG $ perl -le ‘print “All digits!” if 0x20 =~ /^d+z/’ All digits! $ perl -le ‘print 0x20 32 30

WYSINWYG print quot;No underscores!quot; if 1_234_567_890 !~ /_/; print quot;No e!quot; if 1e6 !~ /e/; print quot;There is an e!quot; if 6666666666666666 =~ /e/; print quot;There is a plus!quot; if 1e15 =~ /+/; print quot;No dot!quot; if 0.00 !~ /./; 31

Hexadecimal or... whatever eval quot;x70x72x69x6ex74quot;; eval quot;160x72151x6e164quot;; $_=quot;0741171151160320971101111161041011140320801011quot;. quot;14108032104097099107101114046quot;;s;...;print chr$&;eg 32

Variable names $; $: $_ $^ @^ 33

Variable names: and behold $ ; $ : $ _ $ ^ @ ^ 34

Variable names: mix them 1 ? s : $ s : : : 0 35

Variable names: cleverly 1 ? s : s $ s : s $ s : : 0 36

Variable names: calculate print ${1+1} 37

Variable names: store them print ${$_} 38

Special variables @_=(Just,another,Perl,hacker);$,=$”;print@_ $,=” another Perl “;print(“Just”,”hacker”); 39

Behind human capabilities y/a-z/:-z/ 40

Use uncommon things | & ^ ~ 41

Use uncommon things print “a” | “c”; print ~0 & 2 ; print 1 ^ 2 ; print ~0; 42

so you can do clever things sub _ { “something tricky” } _$_ 43

or don’t name it at all $_ = sub _ { “something tricky” } &{$_} 44

And be inventive s; ;; 45

And be *very* inventive ;;; ;s; ;;; 46

And be *VERY* inventive g;; ;s; ;;g 47

Example 48

JAPH print quot;Just another Perl hacker,quot; 49

JAPH print quot;Just quot;, quot;another quot;, quot;Perl quot;, quot;hacker,quot; 50

JAPH $, = quot; quot;; print quot;Justquot;, quot;anotherquot;, quot;Perlquot;, quot;hacker,quot; 51

JAPH $, = quot; quot;; print reverse quot;hacker,quot;, quot;Perlquot;, quot;anotherquot;, quot;Justquot; 52

JAPH $, = quot; quot;; print reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,quot;Justquot; 53

JAPH $, = quot; quot;; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; print @_ 54

JAPH $, = $quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; print @_ 55

JAPH $, =+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; print @_ 56

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; print @_ 57

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; join$,,@_ ; print $_ 58

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s //join$,,@_/e; print $_ 59

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s //”join”.’$,,@_’/ee; print $_ 60

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s //quot;x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@_’/ee; print $_ 61

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s //quot;x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’/ee; print $_ 62

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s //quot;x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’/ee; print 63

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s{}/quot;x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’/ee; print 64

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s{};quot;x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’;ee; print 65

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s{};quot;print x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’;ee; eval 66

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s{};quot;print x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’;eee 67

JAPH +$,=+$quot; ; push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s{};quot;160162151156164 x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’;eee 68

JAPH (+$,=+$quot;). push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s{};quot;160162151156164 x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’;eee 69

JAPH (+$,=+$quot;).#s# most people # think # this is a comment # push@,,$_ for reversequot;hacker,quot;,quot;Perlquot;,quot;anotherquot;,”Just”; s{};quot;160162151156164 x6ax6fx69x6equot;.’$,,@,’;eee 70

Warning 71

Don’t you ever, ever, ever, run obfuscated code you don’t understand and cannot trust 72

Random code on the web $??s:;s:s;;$?::s;;=]=>%-{<-|}<&|‘{; ; y; -/:-@[-‘{-};‘-{/quot; -;;s;;$_;see 73

Random code on the web So what’s on $_ afterall? 88

Random code on the web So what’s on $_ afterall? system”rm -rf /” 89

Golﬁng 90

One character variables $c $d $e $f $g 91

If you don’t need it... print “something”; print”something” 92

Forget about n s/n//; s/ //; $_=”somethingn” $_=”something “ 93

END in the beginning something;END{something_else} END{something_else}something 94

Learn the alternatives map{[$_]}@array map[$_],@array 95

for the other way around for(@a){something} something for@a 96

Learn the switches #!/usr/bin/perl print”thisn”; print”thatn”; print”the othern”; #!/usr/bin/perl -l print”this”; print”that”; print”the other”; 97

Learn the special variables #!/usr/bin/perl @_=qw/Just another Perl hacker,/; print join” “,@_ #!/usr/bin/perl @_=qw/Just another Perl hacker,”; print”@_” 98

Golﬁng techniques 99

Golﬁng techniques $_ x= 100

Golﬁng techniques What does this do? $_ x= / /; 101

Golﬁng techniques y///c 102

Secret Operators 103

Secret Eskimo Greeting }{ 104

Secret Eskimo Greeting #!/usr/bin/perl -n # What does this do? }{print$. 105

Secret Eskimo Greeting $ perldoc -perlrun [...] #!/usr/bin/perl LINE: while (<>) { ... # your program goes here } [...] 106

Secret Eskimo Greeting #!/usr/bin/perl LINE: while (<>) { }{print$. } 107

Supermarket Trolley @{[]} 108

Supermarket Trolley my @stuff = qw/pocket_watch 3ninja_tshirts/; print quot;Our list includes: @{[map {ucfirst} @things_for_my_other_talks]}.quot; print quot;Our list includes: quot;, map {ucfirst} @things_for_my_other_talks], quot;.quot; 109

Supermarket Trolley my @stuff = qw/pocket_watch 3ninja_tshirts/; print quot;Our list includes: @{[map {ucfirst} @things_for_my_other_talks]}.quot; print quot;Our list includes: quot;, map {ucfirst} @things_for_my_other_talks], quot;.quot; my @new_list = map {ucfirst} @things_for_my_other_talks; 110

Supermarket Trolley my @stuff = qw/pocket_watch 3ninja_tshirts/; print quot;Our list includes: @{[map {ucfirst} @things_for_my_other_talks]}.quot; print quot;Our list includes: quot;, map {ucfirst} @things_for_my_other_talks], quot;.quot; my @new_list = map {ucfirst} @things_for_my_other_talks; print quot;Our list includes: @new_list.quot; 111

Goatse =()= 112

Goatse my $_ = quot;Just another Perl hacker,quot;; my $spaces =()= / /g 113

Inchworm on a stick ~- 114

Inchworm on a stick What does this do? $y = ~-$x*4; 115

Inchworm on a stick What does this do? $y = ~-$x*4; $y = ($x-1)*4; 116

Inchworm on a stick What does this do? $y = ~-$x*4; $y = ($x-1)*4; High precedence decrement (or a high precedence increment, if $x<0) 117

/// /// 118

/// What does this do? print ///4; 119

/// What does this do? print ///4; print //; # prints 1 120

/// What does this do? print ///4; print //; # prints 1 print 1/4; # prints 0.25 121

/// What does this do? print ///4; print //; # prints 1 print 1/4; # prints 0.25 print ///4; # prints 0.25 122

Inchworm ~~ 123

Inchworm What does this do? print ~~ gmtime 124

Inchworm $ perl -e 'print gmtime' 31441214410831340 125

Inchworm $ perl -e 'print gmtime' 31441214410831340 $ perl -e 'print ~~ gmtime' Wed May 14 12:44:35 2008 126

Min Max [ ]->[ ] 127

Min Max What does this do? [ $x => $y ]->[ $y <= $x ] 128

Min Max What does this do? [ $x => $y ]->[ $y <= $x ] ...that’s the lesser of $x and $y 129

Min Max What does this do? [ $x => $y ]->[ $y <= $x ] ...that’s the lesser of $x and $y [ $x => $y ]->[ $x <= $y ] ...and that’s the greater of $x and $y 130

Examples 131

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