Sergey Dryga <sdryga@nc.rr.com> wrote:
> Carey Fisher - NCS <careyfisher <at> ncsradio.com> writes:
> > Iish reallyish loveish Russellsish decriptionish ofish
> > approximateish solutionish toish designish problemsish.
> > He'sish soish preciseish andish consistentish aboutish usingish
> > approximateish valuesish heish almost soundsish likeish
> > aish chefish addingish aish littleish ofish thisis andish
> > aish littleish ofis thatish toish theish octopusish stewish.
> > Iish canish useish serveralish ofish hisish designish
> > ideasish forish myish currentish customerish.  Maybeish aish
> > resistorish hereish andish aish resistorish thereish.  Hereish
> > aish capish, thereish aish capish, everwhereish aish capish.
> 
> Took me a while to understand that there is an actual message in this.
> Very funny response!
> here is the perl script to read the message above: 
> [code]
> #!/usr/local/bin/perl
> open $IN, "<", "c:/tmp/russels.txt" or die "Cannot open input file";
> 
> while (<$IN>) {
>    s/ish($)/$1/;
>    s/ish([\., ])/$1/g;
>    print;
>    };
> close IN;
> [/code]

Waaaay too verbose! Try this:

   perl -pe "s/ish\b//g" c:/tmp/russels.txt

It shows that there were a few errors in encoding the original message :-)

-- Dave Tweed
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