grinder++, What a great module.

When you use tracking to see which regex matched does it still compile to one regex internaly ? The docs say:

track(0|1)
Turns tracking on or off. When this attribute is enabled, additional housekeeping information is inserted into the assembled expression using ({...} embedded code constructs. This provides the necessary information to determine which, of the original patterns added, was the one that caused the match. 
  $re->track( 1 );
  if( $target =~ /$re/ ) {
    print "$target matched by ", $re->matched, "\n";
  }

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Note that when this functionality is enabled, no reduction is performed and no character classes are generated. In other words, brag|tag is not reduced down to (?:br|t)ag<code> and dig|dim is not reduced to <code>di[gm].

so I infer it it not as optimised as a non tracking version but still better than the looping solution ?

If there are two regexen in the list that match does it return the first, last, all or an indeterminate selection of the above ?

Cheers,
R.

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In reply to Re^2: Regex and question of design by Random_Walk
in thread Regex and question of design by amaguk

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