Fundametally you will need two nested loops, even if they are not obviously visible. (e.g. One could be hidden in a regexp.) However, it is possible to optimise the loops.

Possible optimisation one: Don't compile the same regexp over and over again:

for my $bn ( @B_CHECKS ) { my $re = qr/^(?:0|5|6)0+\Q$bn\E$/; for my $cn ( @CS_CHECKS ) { if ( $cn =~ $re ) { print "$bn = $cn\n"; } } }

Possible optimisation two: Create a single regexp:

my ($re) = map qr/^(?:0|5|6)0+($_)$/, join '|', map quotemeta, @B_CHECKS; for my $cn ( @CS_CHECKS ) { if ( $cn =~ $re ) { print "$1 = $cn\n"; } }

Possible optimisation three: Create a single regexp using Regexp::List

use Regexp::List qw( ) my $re = Regexp::List->new->list2re(@B_CHECKS); $re = qr/^(?:0|5|6)0+($re)$/; for my $cn ( @CS_CHECKS ) { if ( $cn =~ $re ) { print "$1 = $cn\n"; } }

Possible optimisation four: Get rid of the regexp entirely, and do hash lookups. This will only work (as is) if $bn will never match /^(?:0|5|6)0+/.

my %B_CHECKS = map +($_ => 1), @B_CHECKS; for my $cn ( @CS_CHECKS ) { (my $bn = $cn) =~ s/^(?:0|5|6)0+//; if ( $B_CHECKS{$bn} ) { print "$bn = $cn\n"; } }

Update: Added #3


In reply to Re: Merged list with regex matches by ikegami
in thread Merged list with regex matches by tcf03

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