I am not sure I understand your points

Change q{ to q{use strict; or q{print scalar @data; and you'll see. You've updated your node, but the problem is still there. @data is empty in the tests, because the tests are using our @main::data and not the my @data that holds the test file.

listing above was posted as pseudo code and not the actual code run

That's rather silly.

since diff boxes have different performance depending on input_files, strings, mem., proc. etc -

Sorry, but your machine is not 540x faster than mine. Change q{ to sub { and you'll see.

In reply to Re^5: grep for lines containg two variables by ikegami
in thread grep for lines containg two variables by smoss74

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