Re: select case or switch statement

I am still trying to grasp using case statements...Since I am new to this, I had a question as to the speed of using CASE. I currently have a script that has 91 if/elsif/else statements in total. Will switching to using CASE improve the execution of the script? On 6/11/05, Chris Devers <[EMAIL PRO

RE: select case or switch statement

Omega -1911 wrote: : I am still trying to grasp using case statements... Since I am : new to this, I had a question as to the speed of using CASE. I : currently have a script that has 91 if/elsif/else statements in : total. Will switching to using CASE improve the execut

Best practice when using data from external files

Hi folks, I'm looking for some advice on the best practice when using external files to contain data. I work in a contact centre and have created a web based stats viewer for my team (it's very simple, just allows you to pick a date range and shows you your stats and the team average but als

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equivalent of break command?

I'm trying to write a perl script that automates g++. There is an if statement in the script that basically works like this: if there are no arguments { print an error message break (end the program) } Is there an equivalent of break in perl? What should I be using instead? "I'm the las

RE: equivalent of break command?

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What does this error message mean?

I am trying to update a script I wrote to automate g++. Here is an excerpt: #!/bin/perl -w use strict; my $number_of_args = @ARGV; open STDERR, ">./caught_errors" or die "Can't create caught_errors: $!"; if ($number_of_args == 0) { print "Not enough arguments!\n"; } foreach (my $i = 0;

Re: What does this error message mean?

>print "g++ $ARGV[i] \n"; > Argument "i" isn't numeric in array element at > ./cedit01 line 61. It is exactly what it says - the string 'i' is not numeric and you are using it as an @ARGV index. Perhaps you meant $ARGV[$i]. Furthermore the whole c-loop construct is not very appropriate as p

Re: What does this error message mean?

On Sun, 12 Jun 2005 11:49:37 -0700 (PDT) Christopher Spears <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am trying to update a script I wrote to automate > g++. Here is an excerpt: > > #!/bin/perl -w > use strict; > > my $number_of_args = @ARGV; > > open STDERR, ">./caught_errors" or die "Can't create > ca