On Sunday 27 Dec 2009 15:12:24 Mike Blezien wrote: > Hello, > Hi Mike!
> I'm working on converting some PHP coding to a Perl system. come across a > couple of functions I'm not familiar with and was hoping we have some > experienced PHP programmer on the list that can help out. These are the > functions I need to switch over to Perl: > > str_shuffle() > microtime() > > What is the Perl equivalent to these functions ? > Here you go: <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< #!/usr/bin/perl # Implement PHP's str_shuffle() and microtime() in Perl 5. # Written by Shlomi Fish ( http://www.shlomifish.org/ ) # # Copyright by Shlomi Fish, 2009 and licensed under the MIT/X11 License ( # http://www.opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.php ). # # If you like this code, please consider contributing to either me: # http://www.shlomifish.org/meta/how-to-help/ or the Perl Foundation: # http://www.perlfoundation.org/ . use strict; use warnings; use List::Util qw(shuffle); # See # http://php.net/manual/en/function.str-shuffle.php sub str_shuffle { my $string = shift; return join("", shuffle(split //, $string)); } sub test_str_shuffle { my $string = shift; print sprintf(qq{Shuffling of "%s" is "%s".\n}, $string, str_shuffle($string) ); } use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday); # See: # http://php.net/manual/en/function.microtime.php sub microtime { my $get_as_float = shift; my ($secs, $microsecs) = gettimeofday(); if ($get_as_float) { return $secs + ($microsecs * 1e-6); } else { return "$microsecs $secs"; } } sub test_microtime { my $get_as_float = shift; print "Microtime(" . ($get_as_float ? "true" : "false") . ") = " . microtime($get_as_float) . "\n" ; } test_str_shuffle("HelloWorld"); test_str_shuffle("This sentence is false."); test_microtime(1); test_microtime(); >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> microtime() seems like it is badly designed and you may wish using Time::HiRes's gettimeofday() directly. > thx's and happy holidays, > Happy holidays and a happy new year to you too. Regards, Shlomi Fish -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Shlomi Fish http://www.shlomifish.org/ http://www.shlomifish.org/humour/ways_to_do_it.html Bzr is slower than Subversion in combination with Sourceforge. ( By: http://dazjorz.com/ ) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/