Re: Matching First Character of Strings Efficiently

Untested:

my $str_a = 'Foo';
my $fc = substr($str_a,0,1);
expensive_function($str_a, $_) for grep {! /^$fc/o} @list;
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Re: Re: Matching First Character of Strings Efficiently by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Mar 15, 2004 at 20:01 UTC
delerium, As I stated, you are not allowed to change the looping construct. See the comment that says # only change this. I will include this solution (combination of substr and a regex) into the benchmark list though. Cheers - L~R	[reply]