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Well said: just one more reason to use index instead of a regexp that fundamentally "emulates" index.

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Re^4: matching a regular expression
by japhy (Canon) on May 18, 2006 at 16:13 UTC
    I know this is pedantic, but index() doesn't stop looking after it fails to find the target at position 0 of the string. The regex does. The regex fails very fast. Add a \Q...\E and an /i modifier, and you have a perfectly reasonable solution. And, as my solution above showed, you can get more bang for your buck.
    Jeff japhy Pinyan, P.L., P.M., P.O.D, X.S.: Perl, regex, and perl hacker
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      Gawd, I can trust you on the reputation of your expertise, but however pedantic you like to be... is that relevant in any way?!?

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Re^4: matching a regular expression
by Jasper (Chaplain) on May 18, 2006 at 16:05 UTC
    Unless you wanted case insensitive indexing, which I'm not sure exists.

    You're being far too dismissive of the usefulness of a regex, I think.
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