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in reply to play with phone numbers & w perl :)

First, bravo on the code. I really suck at writing recursive subs. I didn't intend to rewrite your code. I was just trying to rid it of global variables. Please don't take offense.

I don't like the idea of using @tab as a global. IMO, it would be better to use it as a private variable instead.

{ my @tab; sub teledecode { my $tocode = $_[0]; my @telecode = (); my $i = 0; foreach my $byte ( split //, $tocode ) { $telecode[$i] = $telear[$byte]; $i++; } @tab = (); return arrangecode( "", 0, @telecode ); } sub arrangecode { my ( $first, $i, @dat ) = @_; foreach my $j ( @{ $dat[$i] } ) { if ( $i < ( @dat - 1 ) ) { @tab = arrangecode( $first . $j, $i + 1, @dat ); } # I thnk it is faster written as # push @tab, $first . $j; else { $tab[@tab] = $first . $j; } } return @tab; } }

Now teledecode() is not using @tab globally, but @telear is still a global. We could suck it into this scope, but it is used to make %telealph. It would be nicer if we could condence teledecode() to one line. What if we use an array slice ...

sub teledecode { @tab = (); return arrangecode( '', 0, @telear[ split //, $_[0] ] ); }

Now we could move this array slice outside the sub.

foreach my $toto (@ARGV) { if ( $toto =~ /-d=(\d+)/ ) { # Perhaps a description of what that slice # is doing would help the code maintainer :) print foreach teledecode( @telear[ split //, $1 ] ); } elsif ( $toto =~ /-s=([a-zA-Z_]+)/ ) { print smstype($1); # typo fixed by b10m (thanks) } else { print telecode($toto); } } { my @tab; sub teledecode { @tab = (); return arrangecode( '', 0, @_ ); } sub arrangecode { my ( $first, $i, @dat ) = @_; foreach my $j ( @{ $dat[$i] } ) { if ( $i < ( @dat - 1 ) ) { @tab = arrangecode( $first . $j, $i + 1, @dat ); } else { push @tab, $first . $j; } } return @tab; } }

We could use a hash slice in place of telecode() as well. Removing the last global variable.

else { # This slice should probably explained. print join '', @telealph{ split //, uc( $toto ) }; }
HTH,
Charles