On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 04:18:15AM -0800, Ahmed Moustafa Ibrahim Ahmed wrote: > Performance wise, both are almost the same, I think. But using the Perl > built-in functions would help make your code more portable.
Given that a shell script has to fork and exec a seperate process for almost every line of code I would think the opposite, that Perl would be faster. Michael -- Administrator www.shoebox.net Programmer, System Administrator www.gallanttech.com -- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]