in reply to Re: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
in thread Beauty is in the eye of the beholder

;)))

As you might have read, I would have used a hash....

I was trying to find an example of beauty/efficiency
sad enough, that was the best I could come up with ;))

I would have probably used 'eq' instead of the regex too ;)))

GreetZ!,

print "profeth still\n" if /bird|devil/;
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Re: Re: Re: Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
by japhy (Canon) on Feb 20, 2001 at 18:22 UTC
    Well, an interesting feature of Perl is that by using its data structures, one can often make a structure representing some complex algorithm (like a hash being used to eliminate duplicates).

    japhy -- Perl and Regex Hacker