On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 05:06:57PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote:
> >>>>> "CD" == Chris Devers <cdev...@pobox.com> writes:
> CD> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 4:44 PM, Uri Guttman <u...@stemsystems.com>
> wrote:
> >> assign => sub { my $x = 'abc' ; $x = "qwerty/$x" },
> >> substr => sub { my $x = 'abc' ; substr( $x, 0, 0,
> 'qwerty/') },
>
> CD> The substr version doesn't look very readable or maintainable.
> CD> You're teaching *beginners* to do things this way?
> well, not teaching it. i offered an alternative and faster way to
> prepend a string. some on the beginner's list are very capable of using
> substr in all its forms. the OP actually looked up the docs and found
> lvalue substr but i replied it shouldn't be used as 4 arg substr can do
> the same thing and is much faster.
But it seems that the question wasn't about pre-pending strings, but
about pre-pending directories. In which case the correct answer is
"there's a module that handles all the cross-platform craziness for
manipulating filenames". It's File::Spec.
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