in reply to Re: Unpack or substr to create CSV?
in thread Unpack or substr to create CSV?

I agree with AnomalousMonk, for such a small dataset, any approach is probably good enough. Just use the one you understand best and that your maintainer is likely to understand best. I personally would choose substr because anytime I use unpack, I need to go through the documentation again, and substr is marginally better than a regex. But a regex would do just about as well for this data size.

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Re^3: Unpack or substr to create CSV?
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on May 02, 2015 at 20:11 UTC

    After posting the above, I realized that a regex approach might give you data validation, if this was of any concern, almost for free, so I think now that I might incline in this direction. But again, there are too many unstated conditions and requirements to allow more than a hand-waving consideration of alternatives, although this may be valuable to johnmck.


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      Yes, ++. If validation comes for free (or almost) and is useful, then a regex is very likely to be a much better solution. Neither substr nor unpack will offer that.

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