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Re: rtfm

by Roy Johnson (Monsignor)
on Jun 22, 2004 at 16:21 UTC ( [id://368779]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to rtfm

You could also reduce memory overhead (at the expense of more calls to rand) by doing your random keep/toss within the loop:
my $lines = 0; my $selection; foreach my $path (split /:/, $ENV{'PATH'}) { opendir(PATH, $path); while (defined($_ = readdir(PATH))) { if (-f "$path/$_") { ++$lines; $selection = $_ if int(rand($lines)) == 0; } } closedir(PATH) } exec(man => $selection);

We're not really tightening our belts, it just feels that way because we're getting fatter.

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Re^2: rtfm
by dna (Beadle) on Jun 22, 2004 at 18:43 UTC
    Done. The code seems less logical to me now, but what do I know? All we need now is some sort of GUI... :)

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