On Apr 16, David Gray said: >> my $lookfor = qr/car/; # this is faster and you don't even >> need to put in the // > >> > if ($element =~ /$lookfor/) { > >Are you saying the if inside the foreach could be written as: > >if($element =~ $lookfor) { > >If the search string is defined with qr//?
It doesn't even need to be qr//'d for that to work. The right-hand side of =~ is either a regex or an expression returning a pattern. if ($element =~ generate_random_pattern()) { ... } And using qr// in this case probably won't speed up the code. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]