On Dec 17, Jan Eden said:
>thanks a lot for all the responses. Jeff's explanation of the snippet I
>mentioned in my original message did the trick. The hash-based solution
>is much faster now, although the first attempt (using multiple
>replacements on standard input) is still the fastest.
Well, the first solution might not always work. Consider the following:
my %replace = (
brian => 'jones',
on => 'off',
);
If we use the hash approach, then "this is on brian" will be "this is off
jones". But if we were to do:
s/brian/jones/g;
s/on/off/g;
then we'd get "this is off joffes".
It's just something to keep in mind.
>I omitted the sort command since all patterns consist of a single (8-bit)
>character, so I guess your caveat is not applicable. My original message
>was garbled (see above).
Oh, ok.
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