[Omaha.pm] Substitution loop

[Dan Linder]

On Jul 31, 2007, at 2:17 PM, Jay Hannah wrote:


> Substitution loop at CommonShare.pm line 65.
>
> line 65 looks harmless enough:
>
>   $d1=~s/[^\d]//g;
>
> Anyone seen that error before?
>
> Diving....  :)
>   

Andy Lester wrote:

> You can also use the tr/// operator for this sort of thing, if you want.
>
>   

Jay,

You said "Anyone seen that error before?" Did you mean to include the 
CommonShare.pm or a snippet of code?  I've used the s///g; many times 
before and never really had a problem with it.  (Note, I don't optimize 
for execution speed, rather readability and future "3AM support".)

It would be interesting to know which benchmarks faster, the "s///g" or 
"tr///" on your data...

Dan

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