in reply to parsing a very large array with regexps

Perhaps I've misunderstood, but why can't you just use @biff = grep { /foo|bar|baz/ } <BAP>;?

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Re^2: parsing a very large array with regexps
by pc2 (Beadle) on Aug 19, 2007 at 17:42 UTC
    salutations, yes, we can use this approach, but this is just a shortening of the original approach, and thus also takes long.