Re: [MacPerl] Merging elements

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Thu, Oct 12, 2000 at 02:54:34AM +0800, robinmcf@altern.org wrote:

> $in=~tr/ //s; #take out any unwanted extra spaces
> @raw_data = split(/\s/,$in); #load the data into an array for manipulation

What's wrong with split(' ', $in)??


> # because the values are unique and the keys
> # aren't, it's better if we build a hash
> # using the unique info as the key (less brain strain)

Why are you going to all the trouble of creating a hash with the keys and
values backwards, when you're going to end up reversing the hash anyway?

Especially when you're basing your assumption that all the values are
unique on a very small sample of input data.

Just build the hash the right way in the first place.

I would not recommend using this approach to solve the problem.


Ronald

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