It's pretty hard to give a faster answer when we don't know exactly what you are doing currently (note that the code should compile and run!). Perhaps you could provide just enough of your code to demonstrate the problem and just enought data (in a __DATA__ section) to illustrate the matching issues.

A few other things that it may help to know are:

  1. does the (5025) element set change from run to run?
  2. do the match strings change from run to run?
  3. how many matching strings are there?
  4. what is the minimum likely match length?
  5. what is the maximum likely match length?
  6. are you looking for a single best match or multiple matches?
DWIM is Perl's answer to Gödel

In reply to Re: Regex only the longes Value , and possible speedup Problem by GrandFather
in thread Regex only the longes Value , and possible speedup Problem by ultibuzz

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