Call me silly, but I'm frustrated a bit with the following:
I would like to make an array of say, a thousand elements each filled with 0. What would be the fastest, cleanest way of doing this?

For a string we can replicate a substring:

$string = 0 x 1000;

This will give me a string of a thousand 0's.

For making an array in similar fashion this is the shortest method I can think of:

$_ = 0 foreach (@array = (1..1000));

I could also use split:

@array = split //, 0 x 1000;

But this I think will be more costly because you invoke the regexp engine, I guess.

So my question is: Is there some infinitely better, more perly method of making an array of predefined length with identical values? (Comparable maybe to the more satisfying way of doing something similar for a string?)

Thanks for all the help!

In reply to Making an array of predifined length with default values by johnvandam

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