@folders will have, at most 7 objects in it. All strings of less than 80 bytes.
Bill Ng -----Original Message----- From: Arms, Mike [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 5:24 PM To: perl-win32-users@listserv.ActiveState.com Cc: Ng, Bill Subject: RE: Iffor Bill, as long as your goal was *less efficient and obfuscated code*, then you succeeded. You do realize that you are making a second copy of all of the contents of @folders less the items that do not match your regex? In the general case, if @folders is very large, this is hugely expensive in terms of memory compared to iterating across the list and just not doing whatever action if the regex does not match. In both cases you are doing the test against each element. As far as obfuscation, yes I read that you commented the hell out of it, but that is little comfort for doing something so obscure and needless. Not only is it harder to maintain, I would suggest that it is harder to extend. And my pity if this code is handed to someone else to maintain. -- Mike Arms _______________________________________________ Perl-Win32-Users mailing list Perl-Win32-Users@listserv.ActiveState.com To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
