Greg McCarroll <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> * Piers Cawley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > David Cantrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2001 at 11:25:18AM +0000, Greg McCarroll wrote:
> > > > 6.) regular expressions are not the only way to code, length and
> > > > substr are in the language for a reason
> > >
> > > Also index. These two snippets are equivalent:
> > > if($foo=~/foo/) { ... }
> > > if(index($foo, 'foo')!=-1) { ... }
> > > I always want to do just plain if(index(...)) though.
> >
> > ISTR that (for weird reasons), the regex version of that is faster.
>
> but of course we don't (shouldn't) program perl for program time
> optimization but for programmer time optimization ;-)
So the regex wins on all counts then. Faster, clearer, shorter, easier
to maintain. The list goes on.
--
Piers
