Re^4: FMTYEWTK about split //

It will cost a lot of memory. Fortunately, $string is rarely large. And if it is large, the regex-iterator solution will probably be slow. You'll probably be better off with a substr solution on large strings.

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Re: Re^4: FMTYEWTK about split // by ambrus (Abbot) on Jan 21, 2004 at 14:49 UTC
see Re: foreach (each character in string..)? which shows that substr is really the fastest.	[reply]