Re: code efficiency

2002-06-10 Thread Jeff 'japhy' Pinyan
Your code doesn't compile. You've left out braces here and there. In the future, please use WORKING code unless such code is not possible to create. On Jun 10, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: >$ff="hello fred 12"; >@gg=split(//, $ff);$gglen=@gg; >$hh=substr($ff, ($gglen-1), 1);$fin="n";$val=1; First,

Re: code efficiency

2002-06-10 Thread Janek Schleicher
Steven Massey wrote at Mon, 10 Jun 2002 08:45:57 +0200: > Hi All > The code I have written below works, and yes I could leave it at that.. Oh, I think you shouldn't. Your code isn't very readable and thats in fact at least important as speed. What does $ff stands for, $gg. Well $gglen is the si

Re: code efficiency

2002-06-10 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
> > > You are assuming that your string if it ends with a number will only be 4 digits >wide. > if $str is assigned "hello fred 12345" it will print nothing. > $str should actually be $ff, sorry -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: code efficiency

2002-06-10 Thread Sudarsan Raghavan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi All > The code I have written below works, and yes I could leave it at that.. but > I want if possible to write efficient > code as this seems to be what PERL is all about. So any thoughts anyone ?? > > = > this cod

code efficiency

2002-06-09 Thread Steven_Massey
Hi All The code I have written below works, and yes I could leave it at that.. but I want if possible to write efficient code as this seems to be what PERL is all about. So any thoughts anyone ?? = this code takes a variable containin words and