Re: Printing Fixed Width Strings and Spliting String into Multiple Lines

[mmartin]

in reply to Printing Fixed Width Strings and Spliting String into Multiple Lines

Hey Cheesgui, thanks for the reply, I'll give that a try.


Hey oko1, also thanks for the reply. That looks pretty simple to do, I'll definatly give that a try and see how it goes... Thanks.


Hello GrandFather, thanks for the knowledge! I know it was a little messy but it was more or less just a test script that I wrote on the fly just to see how it would work... But I will take your fixes and add them before I transfer it over to the actual script.
You said don't call subs using '&'... Is that just an older way of doing it?
Also, what do you mean by "Don't use prototype subs"..?


Again, thanks everybody for your suggestions!

Thanks,
Matt

[chessgui]

Don't use my solution if you just have to print the data. I measured the time and it is slower than doing it with substr.

[mmartin]

Ok cool, no problem... Thanks for the follow-up.


Thanks,
Matt

[GrandFather]

In the context of anything to do with file I/O the differences you may have measured are likely to be completely irrelevant. Even for lakh (10⁵) lines is the difference likely to be more than a second?

Benchmarking stuff is often fun, but seldom relevant and very seldom a good reason to prefer one technique over another. It is generally better to make the code clear and maintainable even if there is a small execution speed penalty.