I'm thinking there's a problem with 
  foreach $pair (@pairs) 
  {
    ($key,$value) = split (/=/, $pair);
     chomp ($value);
 
     foreach $name (@names) 
     {
      $name =~s /\s$key/$value/ig;
      @newrecords = (@newrecords,"$name");
     }
  }

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Assuming M pairs and N names, won't this end up with NxM newrecords? I suspect that you either want to verify that the subsitution fired before appending to @newrecords, or, if multiple substitutions per record are possible, defer the appending to @newrecord until all @names are processed. In either case, you'll end up with M newrecords instead of NxM.

In reply to Re: Simply Too Slow Find and Replace by dws
in thread Simply Too Slow Find and Replace by guopan

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