in reply to Re: perl performance vs egrep
in thread perl performance vs egrep

That does nothing in this case since there are no variables in the regex; and without understanding what it does, you can easily cause bugs by using it when there are variables. Don't use /o, use qr//.

Makeshifts last the longest.

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Re^3: perl performance vs egrep
by sitz (Initiate) on Jan 24, 2005 at 06:06 UTC
    Be damned; been misreading perlop all this time. I sit corrected, and so forth; thanks. =)