Jenda Krynicky schreef: > The thing is that if you use > > $something =~ /^$regex$/; > > in a loop, Perl has to copile the regular expression for each > iteration. Because it can't know whether the $regex variable > is still the same or not.
(assuming C<my $regex;>) I wouldn't directly know how to test it, but I think that (in recent Perls) the /^$regex$/ is only recompiled if one of its parts is actually changed (where C<$regex = $regex;> is a counted as a change). (this also makes the /o almost obsolete) -- Affijn, Ruud "Gewoon is een tijger." -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://learn.perl.org/
