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in reply to Re^2: Your favorite objects NOT of the hashref phylum
in thread Your favorite objects NOT of the hashref phylum
Thanx, sometimes I forget the simplest things.
I just needed a quick example illustrating the Stopwatch.
I guess the reason I forgot about time is that there are so many similar functions (time, times, gmtime, localtime, asctime, mktime, andwhatnottime).
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Re^4: Your favorite objects NOT of the hashref phylum
by xdg (Monsignor) on Mar 23, 2006 at 20:48 UTC
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Thanx, sometimes I forget the simplest things
Me, too. Sometimes, I find there's nothing for it but a good skim through perlfunc, which has a nicely categorized list of all the built-in functions (and has all the long descriptions that perldoc -f gives you).
-xdg
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perlfunc is a fine thing. I prefer searching it directly over using for example perldoc -f time. You can always hit /^\s+time and then n some times until you find the function record.
This is slower and sometimes you have to hit n a couple of times. The good thing is you learn/remember the rest of the functions.
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