#!/usr/bin/perl -W use warnings; use strict; use Benchmark; my $phrase1 = 'network'; my $phrase2 = 'networK'; my ($t1, $t2); ########################################## $t1 = new Benchmark; for (1..10000000) { if ($phrase1 =~ /^network$/go) {} } $t2 = new Benchmark; print timestr (timediff ($t2, $t1)), "\n"; ########################################## $t1 = new Benchmark; for (1..10000000) { if ($phrase2 =~ /^networK$/) {} } $t2 = new Benchmark; print timestr (timediff ($t2, $t1)), "\n";