Gunnar Hjalmarsson schreef: > 1. Why is rewriting so bad? Personally I need to look up those > extended patterns, and letting the s/// operator rewrite a single dot > is easier to read IMO.
That is exactly why I suggested that the 5.10.x regex-optimiser should take care of that. But only if it pays off. In Perl 5.8.8 your straight rewriting is actually about 40% faster than my more complexe regex with "?<=". I don't have to look up most of the extended patterns anymore, they became familiar. The "?<=" and "?=" look like brothers to me. So I tend to use them too often. :) > 2. The OP said "another" digit, which I interpreted as a non-zero > digit. I may have been wrong... Yes, I understood that you took it that way, and that is why I pointed out the special behaviour for the ".000" case. -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
