Re: How to quickly parse a huge web log file?

I have heard rumors that using index can be faster than regexp matching when searching for fixed strings, but you'd have to test it to see for yourself.

Update: Joost is right - I didn't see the ^ in the regexp earlier. Ignore this.

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Re^2: How to quickly parse a huge web log file? by Joost (Canon) on Jul 21, 2007 at 21:41 UTC
index() is probably not faster if you only want to test the very beginning of a string. doing a `substr($input,0,$length_of_match) eq $match` just might be a little faster, though. "What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"	[reply] [d/l]