Re^2: cut vs split (suggestions)

[tlm]

Here are the numbers on my machine (first line describes the input used):

% perl -le 'BEGIN{$,=","} print map int rand 1000, 1..25 for 1..500_00
+0' \
> numbers.csv

% time cut -d, -f"1-15" numbers.csv > /dev/null
0.80s user 0.05s system 98% cpu 0.859 total
% time perl -lanF, -e 'print join ",", @F[0..14];' numbers.csv > /dev/
+null
31.54s user 0.06s system 97% cpu 32.462 total
% time perl -lanF, -e 'BEGIN{ $,=","} print @F[0..14];' numbers.csv > 
+/dev/null
31.14s user 0.05s system 99% cpu 31.463 total

(I guess I have much faster cut than sk's...)