Greetings all,
I was talking with a guy at work today and he had something like this: 
opendir AREA, "/files1/logs";
@job_logs = grep /job_log/, readdir AREA;

print "Got my list of files\n";

while (<@job_logs>)
{
print "File: $_\n";
}

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I'd never seen the angle operator used on an array before, but it seems to do the right thing, just really slowly. Does anyone have any ideas as to what is happening? I couldn't find any references anywhere. I've since suggested something like this: 
while(</files1/logs/job_log*>
{
print "Log: $_\n";
}

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So, the question is more academic at this point.

thanks,
thor

In reply to Why is @array so slow? by thor

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