Hi!,

Care to test this one aswell ?

I had the following results (25143 words):

ChOas@xxx$ time ./yours words

real    0m1.21s
user    0m1.01s
sys     0m0.07s
ChOas@xxx$ time ./mine words

real    0m0.68s
user    0m0.54s
sys     0m0.05s
ChOas@xxx$
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This is the code:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w 

use strict;

my %Word;
my $File;

# Fill the hash/list here, ignoring the chomp

push @{$Word{length$_}},$_ while (<>);

# Itterate over the different lenghts of words

for (keys %Word)
{
# This is what is called a dirty hack, subtract 
# one from the length of the string to compensate 
# for the '\n' (but hey, it saves a chomp for every word :) )

 $File=$_-1 . ".mine";

# Write the file

 open OUT,">$File" or die "Cannot open $File.mine: $!\n";
 print OUT @{$Word{$_}};
 close OUT;
};
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p.s. You REALLY want to run/develop code with use strict; and -w...

GreetZ!,

ChOas

print "profeth still\n" if /bird|devil/;