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-- with warm regards, Venkat Saranathan Gulf Breeze Software. On 10/10/07, newBee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Oct 9, 8:18 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Pang) wrote: > > 2007/10/10, Dr.Ruud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > No need for (), so you can write: > > > > > m/tony|anthony/i > > > > or, > > /tony/i || /anthony/i > > > > this is faster than /tony|anthony/i. > > Thanks to all you guys... after I published the question I didn't get > a chance to look so I used something like this which did the job / > \b(tony|anthony)\b/i .. I think i am going to see the performance > difference between that and /tony/i || /anthony/i ... do we have a > inbuilt time function in perl..? > > Thanks > newBee > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >