On Tuesday 29 June 2004 19:26, Wiggins d Anconia wrote: > > On Tuesday 29 June 2004 18:44, mohammed chafik wrote: > > > That's what i've tried (may be it is not the best approch); > > > > If you ask me, the general approach is quite ok... > > Good suggestions, if we are going to stick with the loop, and we only > care that we advance as long as we haven't found the subject then > throwing a 'last' in after the assignment, would provide at least some > speed up. If there are a significant # of lines to parse and the subject > may appear early enough on the line then this could be a noticeable > improvement.
You're right, of course... > It would also make sense to adjust $i initial point forward > if we can be guaranteed that subject occurs after a minimum number of > fields on a line, which does seem indicated since we are using 0,2 > indexes later not relative to the subject, so $i could be set at 3 > initially. Turn my nitpicking back off now ;-)... ...but I was just trying to keep my own perfectionism at a tolerable level. ;-) I'm quite sure that some people on this list would re-write this script in a maximum of two lines, but since Chafik's scripts is working after all, I thought it might be fair to give him a chance of improving his own script... Generally, I'd (still) think that regular expressions might be a good idea here...e.g. see Gunnarīs post ;-) Philipp -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
