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in thread Best practice for reading delimited file

Ah, nifty!

Since Perl v5.10.0, you can use the /p match operator flag and the ${^PREMATCH} , ${^MATCH} , and ${^POSTMATCH} variables instead so you only suffer the performance penalties.

Is that sentence missing a "once" at the end perhaps?

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Re^6: Best practice for reading delimited file
by Jenda (Abbot) on Oct 17, 2013 at 11:17 UTC

    I think it's missing "for this regexp, not for all regexps anywhere in your script+modules".

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Re^6: Best practice for reading delimited file
by Kenosis (Priest) on Oct 16, 2013 at 19:06 UTC

    That certainly is a curiously obscure assertion, given the performance statements a bit later in the documentation. I think you're correct that something is missing here, but I'm not sure it's "once at the end".

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      Its just that that's the first thing you see when doing a search-find for the name. It makes it sound like you get all the performance penalties associated with $`.

      If it has all the same penalties as before then its clearly bad to use, so further details don't really matter. ;)

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