Re^2: next in while loop not honored

The trivial time that may be saved due to removing a simple test is completely irrelevant. However there is a generally big gain in clarity by simplifying code. In that vein, my $useless_line = <$info>; should simply be <$info>; which is much better at conveying the idea that we really don't want to use the contents of the line just read.

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Re^3: next in while loop not honored by Laurent_R (Canon) on Nov 05, 2014 at 22:21 UTC
I found time not so trivial when reading several files with 300 M + lines. It also makes the loop cleaner by removing from it things that don't need to be in it. It also make the algorithm slightly simpler when reading a sorted file to remove duplicates or reading in parallel two (or more) files sorted according to the same key to compare data. As for the `my $useless_line = <$info>;`, I would probably not really code it that way, but I thought giving such a name would make it more self-explanatory to the OP, you seem to disagree, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^3: next in while loop not honored
by Laurent_R (Canon) on Nov 05, 2014 at 22:21 UTC

As for the my $useless_line = <$info>;, I would probably not really code it that way, but I thought giving such a name would make it more self-explanatory to the OP, you seem to disagree, maybe I was wrong, I don't know.

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