in reply to Regex profiler

> a better solution might even exist outside of perl.

Note that other languages might have similar regex syntax to Perl, but the implementation is definitely different, so profiling/benchmarking it doesn't really help if you're going to use the regex in Perl.

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

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