Ng, Bill wrote: > Performance isn't really what I'm going for, just simpler code. > > For the past 4 years, I've been coding to get the job done, no > matter how many lines it takes or how ugly it is to read, as > long as it works that's fine. But recently you guys have shown > me how to simplify my code and make things infinitely easier to > read. So for the past day or so I've been writing a script that > does some log file zipping/deleting based on last-modified time > and I'm trying to do it as "neatly" as possible. Entire script > runs in less than 30 seconds so performance isn't much of an > issue, just looking to tidy up the code. Thanks again.
Given your present mind-set, I suspect you'll benefit from critically thinking about the issues Damian Conway raises and addresses in his "Perl Best Practices" -- consider not just the issues he raises and his resolution of them -- consider also whether the issues he raises are valid and whether he has missed any issues. --Suresh _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs