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Re: Strip surplus white space with Perl
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Sun, 29 Oct 2000 22:06:43 GMT
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On Sun, Oct 29, 2000 at 10:00:13PM +0000, Christopher Lindsey wrote:
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> After reading that paragraph a while back I decided that I'd stick with
> while loops for most cases -- sometimes while debugging or modifying
> my code I don't think about this type of change, so I wouldn't necessarily
> have the presence of mind to switch from /g to a while loop. But if it's
> already in a while loop, I don't have to worry about it.
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> Mind you, I only do this when I might access $& et al.
of course, if you're using $&, you don't care about efficiency anyway, so you might as well put your regexp in a while loop. But if you do care about speed, you'd go with the /g - otherwise, you're restarting the same regexp over a string over and over again, instead of running it once.
I love perl, btw :)
:)
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