use strict; use Benchmark qw/cmpthese/; my $count = 50000; my $regex2 = qr/^-([\d ]+)(.{40})(.{40})(.+)/; my $regex1 = qr/^-((\S+\s+){18})(.{40})(.{40})(.+)/; my @test_data; while ( ) { push @test_data, $_; } cmpthese($count, { 'enlil' => sub { foreach my $line (@test_data) { if ($line =~ /^-3/) { $line =~ m/$regex2/; my $str_18_fields = $1; my $str_40_chars1 = $2; my $str_40_chars2 = $3; my $str_remain = $4; $str_40_chars1 =~ s!\|!_!; $str_40_chars2 =~ s!\|!_!; #print "\(ENLIL)str_18_fields = $str_18_fields\n"; #print "\(ENLIL)str_40_chars1 = $str_40_chars1\n"; #print "\(ENLIL)str_40_chars2 = $str_40_chars2\n"; #print "\(ENLIL)str_remain = $str_remain\n\n"; } } }, 'hackdaddy' => sub { foreach my $line (@test_data) { if ($line =~ /^-3/) { $line =~ m/$regex1/; my $str_18_fields = $1; my $str_40_chars1 = $3; my $str_40_chars2 = $4; my $str_remain = $5; $str_40_chars1 =~ s!\|!_!; $str_40_chars2 =~ s!\|!_!; #print "\(hackdaddy)str_18_fields = $str_18_fields\n"; #print "\(hackdaddy)str_40_chars1 = $str_40_chars1\n"; #print "\(hackdaddy)str_40_chars2 = $str_40_chars2\n"; #print "\(hackdaddy)str_remain = $str_remain\n\n"; } } }, });