Well,
All the above said answers are perfectly fine, but just to make it more
efficient what we can do is, we can avoid the if statement or ?:
operator.
This is because whenever we go for a decision statement, it takes some
extra processing time.
A solution to avoid using if or ?: is as follows:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
my @string = ("Even", "Odd");
print $string[$ARGV[0]%2];
Well it might look like the savings in time is less, but if you consider
that this code is inside a loop which will run for several iterations,
you are sacing lot of time.... Hence the program becomes more efficient.
Also if suppose you need to invoke a function depending upon whether a
number is Odd or Even, you may simply put the reference of the functions
inside the array (which in our example is having "Odd", Even"). So you
may simply invoke the function by saying &$array[$ARGV[0]%2]....
Well it also has lots more advantages, you may just kickstart your
creative horse to run, and use this logic to the maximum extent.....
Hope it helps ;)
With Best regards,
R. Kamal Raj Guptha.
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