Hehe - you actually do. ++

But not that much anymore: ;-)

sub get_proparg_new {
 my $propstr = shift;                     # get the property string
 my $level   = shift || return $propstr;  # get the level we want to e
+xtract

 if($level == -1) {           # special case, get the innermost argume
+nt
   $propstr =~ /\(([^()]+)\)+/;
   return $1;
 } else {                     # get whatever argument $level indicates
   while ($level--) {
     $propstr =~ /\((.+)\)/;
     $propstr = $1;
   }
 }

 return $propstr;
}

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Benchmark: timing 25000 iterations of mine-elegant, mine-less-elegant, original, original++...
mine-elegant:  5 wallclock secs ( 4.61 usr +  0.00 sys =  4.61 CPU) @ 5422.99/s (n=25000)
mine-less-elegant:  2 wallclock secs ( 2.16 usr +  0.00 sys =  2.16 CPU) @ 11574.07/s (n=25000)
  original:  2 wallclock secs ( 2.55 usr +  0.00 sys =  2.55 CPU) @ 9803.92/s (n=25000)
original++:  3 wallclock secs ( 2.32 usr +  0.00 sys =  2.32 CPU) @ 10775.86/s (n=25000)
I guess I'll trade that performance loss against readability. But thanks for the Ideas I could borrow and reuse.

Bye
 PetaMem     All Perl:   MT, NLP, NLU

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