It's not fair to compare the core of C with Perl. They are not on the same level. Perl is like C with lots of handy and powerful libraries, and Perl has built-in memory management.

Ok, let's give C the additional libraries DIE, ARRAY, FILE, HASH and SPLIT, and the competition is more fair.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <DIE.h>
#include <ARRAY.h>
#include <HASH.h>
#include <SPLIT.h>
#include <FILE.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
  FILE *f;
  char *buf;
  HASH *h = new HASH();
  
  if ((f = fopen("data", "r")) == NULL)
    DIE("unable to open file");

  while(buf = READFILE(f)) {
    ARRAY *ar = SPLIT(buf);
    h->AddElement(ar[0], ar[1]);
    free(ar);
    free(buf);
  }

  printf("price of apple is : %s\n", h->GetElement("apple"));

  fclose(f);
  return(0);
}

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In reply to Re: C vs. Perl by Roger
in thread C vs. Perl by podian

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