Hello

I used to check if a work needs to be exluded from processing checking if it is contained in a stop words list. I used this method:

my $CkDiscardCommonwords=1;#check if use stopwords or not
my $term="word";
my $commonwordsRX = loadCommonWords ();
if ($CkDiscardCommonwords eq 1){
    if ($term =~ /^(?:$commonwordsRX)$/){
        return (0);
    }
}

sub loadCommonWords {
    my @commonwords;
    my $filename="commonWords.txt";
    if (open $FH, "<:encoding(UTF-8)", $filename) {
        while (my $line = <$FH>) {
            chomp $line;
            push @commonwords, $line;
        }
        close $FH;
    } 
    my $commonwordsRX = join "|", map quotemeta, @commonwords;
    return $commonwordsRX;
}

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Now my sooftware has changed and the list of common words saved in commonWords.txt may grow exponencially. It used to be small (~300 words), now it could reach x-thousands.

I would like to hear what expert monks think about this implementation. Would a Regex constructed in this way cause problems when it grows? Should I choose another approach?

In reply to Filtering out stop words by IB2017

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