On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:34 PM, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com> wrote: > just to show another way that is usually faster for prepending a string: > > substr( $_, 0, 0, "$directory/" ) for @dirfiles[ 1 .. $#dirfiles ]; > > that is called 4 arg substr and it is way underused in perl. this > benchmark shows the significant speedup of about 2x:
Thanks, Uri. :) I never would have thought substr would support such a feature. In fact, I just read the perldoc and it's quite impressive how it can work as an lvalue too. That's what I love about Perl. :) -- Brandon McCaig <http://www.bamccaig.com/> <bamcc...@gmail.com> V zrna gur orfg jvgu jung V fnl. Vg qbrfa'g nyjnlf fbhaq gung jnl. Castopulence Software <http://www.castopulence.org/> <bamcc...@castopulence.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
