hi all,
i just saw a post on the perl beginner's list and it was prepending a
dir to a filename with the usual $x = $dir/$x. i replied that 4 arg
substr is usually faster. i wanted to make sure so i ran a simple
benchmark on this. the code and results are below. it is faster because
it knows
On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
assign = sub { my $x = 'abc' ; $x = qwerty/$x },
substr = sub { my $x = 'abc' ; substr( $x, 0, 0, 'qwerty/') },
The substr version doesn't look very readable or maintainable.
You're teaching
CD == Chris Devers cdev...@pobox.com writes:
CD On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com wrote:
assign = sub { my $x = 'abc' ; $x = qwerty/$x },
substr = sub { my $x = 'abc' ; substr( $x, 0, 0,
'qwerty/') },
CD The substr version
