Re^3: Colorize

If speed is a concern, among other things, you might move the declaration of @colors out into an enclosing block:

{ my @colors=(...);
  sub colorize {
    ...
  }
}
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This way, @colors will still have only be 'locally' visible to colorize, but it will only be created once, at load-time, instead of every time you call colorize();.

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Re^4: Colorize by merlyn (Sage) on Jul 15, 2005 at 19:57 UTC
And be sure that's in a BEGIN block, not just a naked block, or else there's a chance that the initializer for `@colors` might not have run yet. Wrong: `{ my @colors=(...); sub colorize { ... } }` [download] Right: `BEGIN { my @colors=(...); sub colorize { ... } }` [download] -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply] [d/l] [select]