--- Ryan Guy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I want to get a consensus here. Do you think one liners are faster than
> more extensive programs. Discuss.
What, precisely, is there to discuss? Faster to execute? Faster to get work done?
Faster to
waste time with? One-liners are often used for a simple task that one is either not
likely to
repeat, to test an idea, or to do something so simple that there is no point in having
a utility
for it. For example, if I'm analyzing an Apache error log for errors put out by a
program called
"foo.cgi", I might use this:
perl -ni.bak -e 'print if /\bfoo\.cgi\b/' logbackup.log
Would I write a program and keep it handy to perform that simple task? Probably not.
That really
doesn't have much to do with programming per se, that's using Perl as a nifty command
line tool.
Personally, I think it's apples and oranges. *shrug*
Cheers,
Curtis "Ovid" Poe
=====
"Ovid" on http://www.perlmonks.org/
Someone asked me how to count to 10 in Perl:
push@A,$_ for reverse q.e...q.n.;for(@A){$_=unpack(q|c|,$_);@a=split//;
shift@a;shift@a if $a[$[]eq$[;$_=join q||,@a};print $_,$/for reverse @A
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