Re: [MacPerl] Parsing astronomical data in Perl

[Brian McNett <brianmc@telebyte.net>]

>FWIW, I would replace this whole thing with a data structure and subroutine
>like so:
>
>%data = (
>    ident       => [1,8],

[snip]

Thanks!  I knew there might be a more succinct way of doing this.  So far 
I haven't actually written the routines that process the data, so 
changing this doesn't hurt anything at this point.  Aisde from the fact 
that I'm being absurdly meticulous about commenting my code, your example 
is pretty much exactly how I'm now doing things.

One question:  Perviously I was doing an unshift() to prepend a 0th 
element for each record.  Is this now unnecessary?  I don't want to drop 
the first letter of the first field. (I realize this question sounds 
rather clueless, but programming of all stripes is more of a sideline for 
me.  I occasionally still sound like a cluelessnewbie).

--Brian

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