Please also realize that the Monastery has a wide audience and swearing is not particularly appreciated by many of our community. You have a right to be mad (although I dont agree that you have much reason to be mad...) but please do not express your temper in this way. Its not productive for anybody.

If it has not already been condsidered then I will be putting it up for editing to remove the profanity. Please mellow out a bit.

Yves / DeMerphq
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Writing a good benchmark isnt as easy as it might look.

1. My snippets were incomplete only insofar as they didn't include an array of test data - which by his second post the original author obviously had already understood how to construct.
2. But this is a novice asking a Perl question. Theorizing without any relevance to his reality is meaningless. Besides, I would discourage the style your code displays in any setting. And obviously it doesn't generate any warnings when you switch warnings off; switch them on and see how many it gives you.
3. I did not boast anything. I am not here to prove myself a better programmer than you or anyone, I am here to learn and, where possible, help others learn. If you do not want to be taught, that is your choice, but a pity.
4. Sorry, but when I see bad code (and sorry, but I can't bring myself to call it anything else), especially in a post replying to a newbie who seeks advice, then I feel compelled to offer correction - lest the newbie gets into habits he will have to unlearn again later. The intentions you read into my post do not exist. But I believe that the intentions people read into other people's actions are a reflection of their own self.

Makeshifts last the longest.