Converts single digits into old-school ASCII string.
See my digital clock example.
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| | | _| _| |_| |_ |_ | |_| |_|
|_| | |_ _| | _| |_| | |_| _|
_ _ _ _
| |_| . _| _| . |_ |
| | . |_ _| . _| |
See the 140byt.es site for a showcase of entries (built itself using 140-byte entries!), and follow @140bytes on Twitter.
To learn about byte-saving hacks for your own code, or to contribute what you've learned, head to the wiki.
140byt.es is brought to you by Jed Schmidt, with help from Alex Kloss. It was inspired by work from Thomas Fuchs and Dustin Diaz.
Hot stuff! But now it's getting harder for me to update the annotated source.
@tsaniel: What is the crazy
^
operator doing in this case?