Re: Re^4: creating all possible random 'words' from 4 letters (pass buck)

Oh. Is that right? That wasn't how I read the POD for glob -- how disappointing.

Thanks for setting me straight.

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Re: Re: Re^4: creating all possible random 'words' from 4 letters (pass buck) by QM (Parson) on Nov 13, 2003 at 14:23 UTC
I wasn't sure if BrowserUk was being sarcastic or not...OK, I've decided he was playing straight. Yes, a quick check of 5.8.0 shows that this takes a long time to finish: `foreach ( glob( "{a,b,c,d}" x 10 ) ) { print "$_\n"; last; }` [download] while this finishes immediately: `foreach ( 'aaaaaaaaaa'..'dddddddddd' ) { print "$_\n"; last; }` [download] I'll leave it to OMAR to check the memory use :) -QM -- Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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I wasn't sure if BrowserUk was being sarcastic or not...OK, I've decided he was playing straight.

Yes, a quick check of 5.8.0 shows that this takes a long time to finish:

foreach ( glob( "{a,b,c,d}" x 10 ) )
{
    print "$_\n";
    last;
}
[download]

while this finishes immediately:

foreach ( 'aaaaaaaaaa'..'dddddddddd' )
{
    print "$_\n";
    last;
}
[download]

I'll leave it to OMAR to check the memory use :)

-QM
--
Quantum Mechanics: The dreams stuff is made of