Ouch.

How many prefixes of each length, though? If you have many of a given length, maybe you could do something like this (writing support code to generate this HOH, of course): 

my %prefixList=(
   3 => {DEF=>1, SRC=>1},
   6 => {ABCD12=>1},
  10 => {DEEEE11223},
);

#....
# inside the loop
foreach my $length(%prefixList) {
    if($prefixList{$length}->{substr($fields[7],0,$length)}){
        ### code here
        last;
    }
}

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If the set of sizes isn't dynamic, you could make that an AOH, with some possibly empty hashes, I guess... You could also get rid of the loop and inline the check for each length, but I don't think that would save you much.

If you're only ever going to have 1 or 2 prefixes of a given length, then this isn't worth it. But given your initial description, I think with a LOT of prefixes and very few different lengths, this could start to pull ahead of the regex.
--
Mike

In reply to Re^5: Bulk Regex? by RMGir
in thread Bulk Regex? by meetraz

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