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PATTERN may contain variables, which will be interpolated (and the pattern recompiled) every time the pattern search is evaluated, except for when the delimiter is a single quote. (Note that $(, $), and $| are not interpolated because they look like end-of-string tests.) If you want such a pattern to be compiled only once, add a "/o" after the trailing delimiter. This avoids expensive run-time recompilations, and is useful when the value you are interpolating won't change over the life of the script. However, mentioning "/o" constitutes a promise that you won't change the variables in the pattern. If you change them, Perl won't even notice

Notice that the text is only talking about patterns with variables in them (which is what the phrase "such a pattern" in what you quoted is referring to).

duff

In reply to Re: Re:^4 Regex: same code works and fails, why? by duff
in thread Regex: same code works and fails, why? by Hena

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