I said this ages ago, but I feel it's still valid.

There's a process you go through when working with Perl and HTML, unless you're really lucky, and it's like this:

  1. Using hundreds of horrible print statements, all of which neeed to have all the quotes escaped
  2. Using "print qq" instead
  3. Using HERE documents or subs
  4. Using your own templating system
  5. Throwing your own templating system away and using HTML::Template
I'm proud to say that I have finally got to stage five. And I'm only now realising how many very smart, efficiency-minded extra options HTML::Template has.

($_='kkvvttuubbooppuuiiffssqqffssmmiibbddllffss')
=~y~b-v~a-z~s; print

In reply to Re: Efficiency/Speed question... (files or formats?) by Cody Pendant
in thread Efficiency/Speed question... (files or formats?) by Spidy

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