(As I noted in an earlier post) I'm writing a handler for an LCD display (a BPP-440 from Scott Edwards (www.seetron.com)). The display is 4 lines x 40 characters, and has direct cursor positioning. I'm going to store the data for several virtual screens, but I don't know whether it would be better (in terms of speed and writing/maintaining the code) to use an array with 160 elements (one for each character), or a single scalar with 160 characters. It seems to me that if I use a scalar I can use perl's string manipulation tools, and if I use arrays I can use slices--but I have no idea if one is going to have any significant advantages/disadvantages over the other. Any suggestions?
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