On 10/9/09 Fri Oct 9, 2009 7:43 AM, "Harry Putnam" <rea...@newsguy.com>
scribbled:
> I'm thinking of splitting on something like ' +' (<spc><spc>+) since
> no regular output will have 2 spc or more between connected
> words.... I mean words that belong in a group.
I would use the construct /\s{2,}/ for "two or more spaces", as it is less
likely to be misread.
>
> A quick test with:
>
> while(<>){
> my @linar = split(/ +/,$_);
> print "<" . @linar . ">\n";
> }
>
> Shows all lines split into 4 elements... which is what I want... then
> I can test for a long element and fold it... maybe on commas since the
> options are separated by commas.
>
> Do you have any idea if that would cause significant cpu usage. I
> mean testing every field for length. There would be 4 per line and
> some 100+ lines. So, 400+ tests.
That is a trivial number. Anytime you are reading from a file, the I/O time
will dominate your performance.
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