Re: [Hampshire] obfuscated code

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Author: Jan Henkins
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Subject: Re: [Hampshire] obfuscated code
LOL! Thanks guys, awesome thread!

On 13/03/11 17:44, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
>
> On Sunday, 13 March 2011 at 17:37, Andy Smith wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 05:36:28PM +0000, Daniel Llewellyn wrote:
>>> if you want a quick decode you can use php:
>>>
>>> cat file_containing_html | php -r "print
>>> html_entity_decode(file_get_contents('php://stdin'));"
>>
>> Burn him!!!
> I agree! your Perl is much more succinct; I would have done it in Perl
> had I been more sure of my coding in the lingo. But I would have had
> to google for the correct module, then googled for the docs for
> HTML::Entities, and then worked out how to make it into a one-liner..
> Plus I'm more sure that html_entity_decode() will be available in any
> given php implementation whereas I don't know whether HTML::Entities
> is stock in most Perl distros.
>


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Regards,
Jan Henkins