#! perl use strict; use warnings; use Benchmark 'cmpthese'; use Data::Dump; use experimental 'smartmatch'; my (@x, @y); cmpthese ( 100, { MAP => sub { @x = map { /\d+_(\S*?)\.pl$/ } `ls -l` }, G_MOD => sub { @y = `ls -l` =~ /\d+_(\S*?)\.pl$/gm }, } ); if (@x ~~ @y) { printf "The arrays are equal; each has %d elements\n", scalar @x; } else { print "The arrays are different:"; dd \@x; print "----------\n"; dd \@y; }