Re: [MacPerl] Flat files and variable miles

[Chris Nandor <pudge@pobox.com>]

Just some style suggestions ...

At 09.29 -0500 1999.03.31, Greenblatt & Seay wrote:
>$fieldNames = "lastName,firstName,phone,address,etc.";
>@fields = split(",",$fieldNames);

This can be shortened to:

  @fields = qw(last first phone address
    foo bar baz buz etc ad nauseum forever);

qw() is the same thing as split(/\s+/, $foo), where the contents
of qw() is a white-space separated list of tokens.  If your tokens
contain whitespace, it won't work, or course.  Also, if your tokens
contain ',' or '#', you will get a warning.


>	for($flds=0;$flds<@fields;flds++);

Here, i would just prefer:

  for my $n (0 .. @fields) {

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