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Re^2: foreach type of deal?

by kennethk (Abbot)
on Mar 15, 2017 at 18:32 UTC ( [id://1184743]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: foreach type of deal?
in thread foreach type of deal?

Since 500k+ is a big number and the spec says "They all start out with a g", I would rather use substr since there is no need for a test.
while (<>) { my $word = substr($_,1); # Start with the second letter }

As a note for the OP, while is a nicer option than Foreach Loops in this scenario since, in general, foreach constructs the entire list before incrementing over it, whereas while will just hit your file-handle once per loop -- normally, that means while has a much smaller memory footprint than foreach does for large sets. I don't recall if in the particular case of foreach(<$fh>) { there is an optimization in perl to avoid this pitfall.


#11929 First ask yourself `How would I do this without a computer?' Then have the computer do it the same way.

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Re^3: foreach type of deal?
by BillKSmith (Monsignor) on Mar 15, 2017 at 23:07 UTC
    Do we ever have perfect data? I prefer to use a test to warn about invalid data. The following code (untested) makes use of runtime switches (ref: perldoc perlrun). Use -p for the I/O and -i for backup.
    #!perl -p -ibak if (!s/^g(Ord_\d{4}\.png)\s*$/$1/) { warn "Invalid line: $_\n"; $_ = <>; redo; }
    Bill

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