in reply to Re^2: Massive regexp search and replace
in thread Massive regexp search and replace

Expanding on Hena's idea I wonder if it would be even more efficient to use Tie::File to go through, writing replacements as you go (untested):
use Tie::File; my $inputfile = "samplein.txt"; &replacer($inputfile); sub replacer { tie my @currentfile, 'Tie::File', $inputfile or die "$!"; my $inputline; foreach $inputline ( $currentfile[0] .. $#currentfile ) { foreach my $key (keys %regex) { $inputline =~ s/$key/$regex{$key}/gee; } } untie @currentfile; } ## Totally untested

Seems like the write operation would be faster with Tie::File