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Re: Using IF and OR, I'm sure there is a better way

by bravenmd (Sexton)
on Dec 15, 2005 at 20:30 UTC ( [id://517072]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Using IF and OR, I'm sure there is a better way

try this:

if($variable =~ /1|2|3/){
...
}
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Re^2: Using IF and OR, I'm sure there is a better way
by serf (Chaplain) on Dec 16, 2005 at 08:38 UTC
    I'd recommend trying this vs seperate elsif statements on a large file and seeing if it makes a difference.

    6 weeks ago I was optimising a process reading in a daily network syslog file of approx 1200 MB using 5.8.0 on an overworked Ultra 2 running Solaris 2.6.

    The script had been using next if (/abc|cde|fgh|/) which *looks* most concise, but I found (to my and my workmate's surprise) that replacing it with the equivalent elsif statements made it take about 30 seconds less (it had been taking >2 minutes to read the file in).

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