Re: [PATCH v5 6/6] cmd-list.perl: ignore all lines until [commands]

[Eric Sunshine <sunshine@sunshineco.com>]

On Sat, May 9, 2015 at 1:17 PM, Sébastien Guimmara
<sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com> wrote:
> command-list.txt contains a [common] block that should be ignored
> by the Documentation checker cmd-list.perl.
>
> Filter out this block before the actual processing of the command list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Sébastien Guimmara <sebastien.guimmara@gmail.com>
> ---
> diff --git a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
> index 04f9977..d581378 100755
> --- a/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
> +++ b/Documentation/cmd-list.perl
> @@ -38,8 +38,14 @@ sub format_one {
>         }
>  }
>
> +my @filtered = ();
> +while (<>)
> +{

Style: while (<>) {

> +       push (@filtered, $_) unless 1../^\[commands\]/;
> +}

Why collect the lines into @filtered when you could instead merely
skip the unwanted ones outright?

    while (<>) {
        last if /^\[commands\]/;
    }

And, then you don't need to touch the following 'for' loop at all.

>  my %cmds = ();
> -for (sort <>) {
> +for (sort @filtered) {
>         next if /^#/;
>
>         chomp;
> --
> 2.4.0