remove me, thank you.

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Re^3: Regex Tuning by dragonchild (Archbishop) on Apr 28, 2005 at 15:31 UTC
/o isn't all that useful in the general case. First off, it's only useful if you have variables in your regex definition, which isn't the case here. Secondly, it is often counter-intuitive because it locks the regex into the variable as it was when you defined the regex. The Perfect is the Enemy of the Good.	[reply]
Re^3: Regex Tuning by salva (Canon) on Apr 28, 2005 at 15:38 UTC
no, /.../o is very rarely useful, only when you are including some var $foo inside the regexp and $foo it's not going to change after the first match. Recent perl versions include the qr// operator that allows to precompile regexp. It is what you should use when you have speed problems with dynamically generated regexps.	[reply]
Re^3: Regex Tuning by deibyz (Hermit) on Apr 28, 2005 at 15:33 UTC
`/o` can only help to improve the speed if the pattern has any variable, wich isn't the case. So `/o` is not needed. Also, it's almost every time a better choice to use `qr//`	[reply] [d/l] [select]
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