Re: Get number ranges from files internally?

[talexb]

I haven't tried running your code, but a couple of stylistic matters strike me right off the bat.

Don't read the entire file into an array -- that's slow, and it isn't necessary. Do something like

while (<>)
{
  next if ( $_ !~ /\d/ );  #  Skip records w/o numeric fields

  #  Match, print if within range here..
}

instead. Much simpler.

Also, don't try to do everything in one line -- even :) if Perl will let you do that. If I were doing this project, I would probably split the incoming data line into an array (splitting on spaces) and then deal with the individual elements. If the date matches a particular value, then I would look at the time, splitting it on the ':', comparing to the time range that you want.

--t. alex

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