Re^3: Seeking the longest string in an array

change $data[0] =~ /\Q$_\E/ to index($data[0], $_).

Should be faster.

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Re^4: Seeking the longest string in an array by ikegami (Patriarch) on Dec 12, 2004 at 05:56 UTC
nope, won't work. He's doing case-insensitive searches.	[reply]
Re^5: Seeking the longest string in an array by mpeters (Chaplain) on Dec 13, 2004 at 15:22 UTC
you're right, I missed that. But even `index(lc($data[0]), lc($_))` should be faster than `$data[0] =~ /\Q$_\E/i`.	[reply] [d/l] [select]