SPUG: son of ifs and whiles and hashes

Tim Maher/CONSULTIX tim at consultix-inc.com
Fri Aug 20 14:33:13 CDT 1999


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According to Ryan Forsythe:
> 
> thanks a lot, all...i didn't know (.*?) was so inefficient.  i guess
> i'll have to go rummaging through my code changing all of them (doh!)
> 
> i ended up doing it the 
> 
> $dbaseLine =~ s/^"//;
> $dbaseLine =~ s/"$//;
> @record = split /","/, $dbaseLine;
> 
> way, since that doesn't make me remember how many items are in each
> record (well, it puts it off for a bit, at least : )

I was very impressed with the quality and depth of the responses Ryan got
to his modest little question, and I learned a few things by reading them.

Thanks to all who contributed!  Go SPUG-list!

-Tim
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