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in thread Faster way?

/$search_pattern/ is unanchored: 
"abcdefg" =~ /cd/      # true
"abcdefg" =~ /^cd/     # anchored at start, false
"abcdefg" =~ /fg$/     # anchored at end, true

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The regular expression I provided will match anywhere in the line, unless you've modified that behavior by inserting a ^ or $ at the beginning of the search string, or the end, respectively.

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RE: RE: RE: Re: Faster way?
by the_slycer (Chaplain) on Oct 06, 2000 at 23:37 UTC
    Thanks for that :-)
    The code from above seems to not do much for speed improvement though, obviously cleaner, but not much faster. Damned w2k.. all of these are out on a file server for shared access. I run this same code on my linux box, and way way faster. Too bad :(
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      Moving your open and close calls outside of your loop will definitely speed things up. Check the comments in my original post for other speed-ups.
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