Re: efficient method of matching a string against a list of substrings?

my $re = join '|', @sub;
$re = qr/($re)/;
$str =~ $re;
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Re^2: efficient method of matching a string against a list of substrings? by diggler (Initiate) on May 05, 2005 at 00:53 UTC
very large regexes can be even more inefficient. when i say large list, think hundreds or thousands of strings.	[reply]