PAR::Fi...fuscate(3)

okay so welcome to the PAR::Fi...fuscate(3) page, bestie — it's part of the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and the actual star of the page is PAR::Filter::Obfuscate 💅✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

PAR::Filter::Obfuscate — an obfuscating filter. that's the whole vibe check, and it ate.

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

so you literally call it like this:

PAR::Filter::Obfuscate->apply(\$code); # transforms $code

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so here's the tea: this filter uses B::Deobfuscate (available separately from CPAN) to turn the script into comment-free, architecture-independent Perl code with mangled variable names. it's giving "who is she?" but for your variables, and honestly? iconic 🔥

🎀 CAVEATS 🎀

lowkey heads up: a harmless message will be displayed during pp:

/tmp/8ycSoLaSI1 syntax OK

Please just ignore it. :-) no cap, it's not deep, don't let it ruin your main character energy 💀

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

go peek at these icons:

• PAR::Filter
• B::Deobfuscate
• PAR::Filter::Crypto

💖 AUTHORS 💖

• Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>
• You can write to the mailing list at <par@perl.org>, or send an empty mail to <par-subscribe@perl.org> to participate in the discussion.
• Archives of the mailing list are available at <https://www.mail-archive.com/par@perl.org/> or <https://groups.google.com/g/perl.par>.
• Please submit bug reports to <https://github.com/rschupp/PAR-Packer/issues>.

👑 COPYRIGHT 👑

Copyright 2003-2009 by Audrey Tang <cpan@audreyt.org>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

See LICENSE.

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