That makes me happy. :)
split() was my first thought, but I wanted to keep it simple for the
example(for once), and thought it might actually be faster.
Personally, though, I'd *definitely* use the split()!
--- "NYIMI Jose (BMB)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > my $prevrec = <>;
> > my $key = substr($prevrec,9,3);
>
> I'd be using split here to avoid hard-coding the string's length
> my $key=( split(/\s+/,$prevrec) )[1];
>
> > while(<>) {
> > my $tmp = substr($_,9,3);
>
> The same here ...
> my $tmp=( split/\s+/ )[1];
>
> > next if $key eq $tmp;
> > print $prevrec;
> > $key = $tmp;
> > $prevrec = $_;
> > }
> > print $prevrec; # either last of same, or only of new!
> >
> > Somebody double-check me on this?
>
> Jos�.
>
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