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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