I too am confused what the point might be, especially since your function does more than the CGI.pm ... but do correct me if i am wrong here -- i was under the assumption that memory and speed were so cheap these days that using a mere 5000 lines is not really that bad after all. Back when i was a Comp Sci undergrad, a peer who majored in Industrial Engineering explained to me that there was no need to worry about optimization since hardware was making leaps and bounds. I, of course, scoffed at that, and i still believe that someone had damn better well keep the optimization torch burning because hardware does have a limit ... but the truth is that we are only talking about a few extra seconds at best by using CGI.pm. I just ran Devel::Profile on two scripts, one that imported CGI.pm's escapeHTML and one that used yours. Here are the results:

Milleage will vary, but unless i am missing something, that's a whoping extra .05 of a second. But at this point, i would use your subroutine because ... well, there it is now isn't. What was that saying ... yes, don't go looking a gift horse in the mouth. That or don't complain when a saint posts code that works, is fast, and is free. ;)

jeffa

L-LL-L--L-LL-L--L-LL-L--
-R--R-RR-R--R-RR-R--R-RR
B--B--B--B--B--B--B--B--
H---H---H---H---H---H---
(the triplet paradiddle with high-hat)

In reply to 4Re: Substituting Newline Characters by jeffa
in thread Substituting Newline Characters by bkiahg

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