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in thread You learn something every day

aha, but @patterns didn't contain just strings, it was full of all sort of regular expression trickery. Show me a hash lookup that'll work for that!

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Re: Re: Re: You learn something every day
by demerphq (Chancellor) on Aug 05, 2003 at 07:17 UTC

    The use of /^(...)$/ lead me to believe it was simply strings. If @patterns is fully regexes then why not build the final regex only once with qr//?


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