Hi, please see my benchmark test

use strict;
use Benchmark qw(cmpthese);

# A big, sorted list (475254 elements)
my @list = ('a'..'zzzz');
##Put the list into a string

my $string = join(/ /, @list);

$string .= "\n";

cmpthese(0, {
       # Looking for a random item in @list with grep
        index => sub {
                # A random element in the list
                my $pattern = 'fqsu  fqsv  fqsw  fqsx  fqsy';
                my $result = index($string, $pattern);

        },
        # Looking for a random item in @list linearly (with foreach)
        regex  => sub {
                my $pattern = 'fqsu  fqsv  fqsw  fqsx  fqsy';
                $string =~ /$pattern/;
        },
    }

);
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I also did another test where I read a proper HTML file and received similar results. Can you please tell me what you did different?

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In reply to Re^2: Matching simple patterns - is there a faster way? by mrguy123
in thread Matching simple patterns - is there a faster way? by mrguy123

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