Hrm.. I'll run some tests with it and see what I find out... Sounds promising if it really is a preprocessor... So does it just do something along the lines of a cat <file> | grep -v <stuff> and then execute the output? (I realize that is simplifying it by a great deal)
I'm just trying to wrap my head around this... The program (actually programs) that I've been writing runs anywhere from once every 5 minutes to once a night... I know I can make it faster by porting to C, but it's that much easier to do in perl. However, I don't want to waste cycles running through a preprocessor every time, or running through a debug routing every time when it's not needed... Hrm... more thought needed.. *grin* --------------------------- Jason H. Frisvold Senior ATM Engineer Engineering Dept. Penteledata CCNA Certified - CSCO10151622 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------- "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein [1879-1955] -----Original Message----- From: Chas Owens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, April 26, 2002 11:47 AM To: Jason Frisvold Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Debugging and 'uninitialized value in concatenation' question On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 11:44, Jason Frisvold wrote: > While this appears to be a decent solution, I think I would still > encounter the same problem that I wanted to avoid... Every time it > encounters a CPP statement (#IF DEBUG, #DEFINE, etc) then it still needs > to make the proper calls and whatnot... Whereas in C, since it's > compiled, the pre-processor strips out the debug junk where appropriate > as per your defines... > > I don't think the solution I want exists since this is not a compiled > language... Other than writing a pre-processor style program that > manually strips out the debug stuff I don't want... > > Hrm.. I wonder if I can make a module for CVS that will do this.. > > --------------------------- > Jason H. Frisvold > Senior ATM Engineer > Engineering Dept. > Penteledata > CCNA Certified - CSCO10151622 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------- > "Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. > Imagination encircles the world." -- Albert Einstein [1879-1955] > <snip /> You misunderstand what a source filter is; they _are_ the preprocessors of the Perl language. A source filter steps in the the way of the execution of your perl program and alters it. Anything hidden by a false #IF or #IFDEF will not even _be_ in the copy of the Perl program that perl executes. -- Today is Sweetmorn the 43rd day of Discord in the YOLD 3168 All Hail Discordia! Missile Address: 33:48:3.521N 84:23:34.786W -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
