I'm at home today, with a much slower machine (P166 64Mb, linux 2.2.18pre21, Perl 5.005_03), so I've reduced the number of iterations to a million.

These benchmarks are also with the compl routine checking the length() of the test character first, and with the regex fixed - 

Benchmark: timing 1000000 iterations of compl, exist, regex, tr...
     compl: 17 wallclock secs (17.35 usr +  0.02 sys = 17.37 CPU)
     exist: 15 wallclock secs (14.02 usr +  0.01 sys = 14.03 CPU)
     regex: 18 wallclock secs (18.62 usr +  0.00 sys = 18.62 CPU)
        tr: 16 wallclock secs (16.67 usr +  0.01 sys = 16.68 CPU)

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So, faster than the regex, but still not as fast as the exist() method. Thanks for the suggestion though :-)

Pete

In reply to Re: Re: Testing a string for a range of characters by BoredByPolitics
in thread Testing a string for a range of characters by BoredByPolitics

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