On Thu, Jan 24, 2002 at 11:24:47AM -0500, Bill -OSX- Jones wrote:
> >>$c = grep {/[osx]/i} @_;
> >>
> >>Is there a better way?
> >
> >To do... what?
>
> Sorry -
>
> Given:
>
> $_ = "Mac OS X";
>
> split //;
> $c = grep {/[osx]/i} @_;
Regardless, the {} there is redundant and actually slows you down a
bit (Perl has to enter/leave that block on each element which isn't
cheap and its not smart enough to optimize it out.
> print "Found $c things\n";
print "Mac OS X" =~ tr/osxOSX//;
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