Oops. Got cut off. :( 

while (<>) {
    if (/Ovid/io) {
        # insert brilliant code here
    }
}

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If we know the pattern will never change, having it compile only once via the /o switch is great if the regex is in a loop. But if the target string is always going to be "Ovid" with an uppercase "O", that /i switch is killing performance (any monks feel free to correct my ad-hoc analysis).

In retrospect, perhaps coding practices like modularization and optimization should be totally separate issues and not dealt with in one post. Further, I realize that an entire book on these issues can be written (has been written?), so this may be beyond the scope of a simple post here on perlmonks. But these are burning issues for me and perhaps I seek instant gratification|nerdvana :)

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