Re: newbie: foreach

keithv wrote: 
miguel sofer wrote:

Kev P. wrote:

I'm sure the below can be simplified with some sort of "foreach", but
so far I've failed.  Anyone help please?
Snippet of code attached:


The use of foreach and arrays has been illustrated by the previous
replies; I just want to suggest replacing your busy loop with an
event-based processing. The difference is that your script will take as
much cpu as available while waiting for user input, and this will just idle.




Pardon my ignorance but I thought that in the original code
the line "gets stdin line" will block inside the OS and
not consume cpu cycles.

Keith


Indeed, I somehow forgot that stdin is blocking by default :(

I (tried) to delete that message right after noticing my boo-boo, and sent another message with essentially this remark.

Ever so sorry, my bad.

Miguel



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