Another option is string escapes: 

   if ("\U$listaccountlocked[1]" eq 'TRUE') {

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I added another sub to your benchmark: 

sub slashU {
     my $cnt=0;
     for (@words){
             ++$cnt if "\U$_" eq 'ABCB';
     }
     return $cnt;
}

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But it didn't fare very well: 

In 4096 words, 16 are 'abcb'
        Rate slashU  uccmp  regex
slashU 321/s     --   -18%   -26%
uccmp  390/s    21%     --   -10%
regex  435/s    36%    12%     --
In 4096 words, 0 are 'abcb'
        Rate slashU  uccmp  regex
slashU 328/s     --   -17%   -25%
uccmp  397/s    21%     --   -10%
regex  439/s    34%    11%     --
In 4096 words, 4096 are 'abcb'
        Rate  regex slashU  uccmp
regex  266/s     --    -6%   -18%
slashU 282/s     6%     --   -13%
uccmp  325/s    22%    15%     --

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Ah well.

In reply to Re^3: Upper case and chomp by hbm
in thread Upper case and chomp by TechFly

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