I'm trying to verify some regex optimizations, so I decided to benchmark my code. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w 
use strict; 

my $myvar = 'Tom said "hi," and Sally replied "get lost, Ovid is more 
+my style."';

use Benchmark;
 timethese(100000, { 
    Greedy  => '$myvar =~ /"(.*)"/', 
    Lazy    => '$myvar =~ /"(.*?)"/', 
    Negated => '$myvar =~ /"[^"]*"/' 
});

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Unfortunately, the above code keeps giving me the following error: 
Use of uninitialized value at (eval 2) line 1.

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I've tried swapping out the single quotes, the double quotes, and even tried running the debugger on it (yeah, I know that must do wonders for timing your code). I've also read up on a fair amount of documentation for this, all to no avail! Help

Thanks in advance for any advice!

Cheers,
Ovid

In reply to Help using Benchmark.pm by Ovid

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