I am writing a little script to maintain some log files. In the nature of readability I have set up several if statements to make it easier for the folks that follow. Due to the fact that it will be run without much need for efficiency, I went for readablity. 
#see if it hasn't been touched in 3 days 
 if (-M "$logdir/$f" > 3.0)          
                {
                #see if file begins with ab or def case insensitive  
                if ($f=~/^(ab|def)/i)      
                        {
                        #see if hasn't been zipped already 
                        if (!($f=~/gz\b/)) 
                                {
                                system ("/usr/local/bin/gzip", "$logdi
+r/$f");
                                }

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My question would be would it be more efficient to have a larger regex that does it in one pass?

In reply to Efficiency of multiple if statements by scottstef

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