Re^3: Perl - Remove duplicate based on substring and check on delimiters

I think we are splitting hairs here. I count $first as the first token, you don't. Or you figure that the final empty token shouldn't be counted? Either way not a significant problem in my mind.

Yes, tr is the fastest and best way to do a simple count of the x's. And yes, substr is the fastest way to get a fixed length thing at the beginning. The reason that I demo'd split was to show: a)how to get a non-fixed length thing at the beginning, b)how to access some of these other length "between the x's" fields. I'm sure that they have some meaning.

Update: I almost never use the -1 limit on split. I saw an opportunity to play with this and remind myself of how it worked. Once I had done that, I impulsively posted my "play". Wasn't meant to be "earth shattering" stuff, just an example of a not so common usage that is often forgotten.

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Re^4: Perl - Remove duplicate based on substring and check on delimiters by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on May 19, 2016 at 03:16 UTC
... do a simple count of the x's. ... get a fixed length thing at the beginning. But I understood that to be what the OP was asking for, at least as a starting point for a larger application. (bopibopi actually seemed to have the counting and extracting part under control, and was asking for help with the subsequent pieces.) Using split may be a good example of doing something slightly different. We may not be so much splitting hairs here as comparing apples and oranges — or perhaps tangerines and oranges since we're not really all that far apart. Update: ... the -1 limit on split ... an example of a not so common usage ... As someone addicted to "not so common usage" myself, I can sympathize. (But I have it under control; I haven't used uncommonly in ages!) Give a man a fish: `<%-{-{-{-<`	[reply] [d/l]

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Re^4: Perl - Remove duplicate based on substring and check on delimiters
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on May 19, 2016 at 03:16 UTC

... do a simple count of the x's. ... get a fixed length thing at the beginning.

But I understood that to be what the OP was asking for, at least as a starting point for a larger application. (bopibopi actually seemed to have the counting and extracting part under control, and was asking for help with the subsequent pieces.) Using split may be a good example of doing something slightly different. We may not be so much splitting hairs here as comparing apples and oranges — or perhaps tangerines and oranges since we're not really all that far apart.

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... the -1 limit on split ... an example of a not so common usage ...

Give a man a fish: <%-{-{-{-<

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