Re: [MacPerl] STRING2LIST conversion

[Matthias Ulrich Neeracher <neeri@iis.ee.ethz.ch>]

luca.post@nettuno.it writes:
>Is there a function to load a @list with string's characters as elements:
>
>                @list= func("anystring");
>
>returns $list[0]="a", .... $list[9]="g" ???

Try @list = split(//, "anystring");

>I read getc must be avoided (SLOW!) ...

I would be very surprised if split were not significantly slower than getc.
If you really need character-at-a time processing, use getc.

Matthias

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