Craig Cardimon wrote:
I'm searching a text file for keywords. These keywords are stored in
an array. First, I read the file into a scalar variable. Then, I
search for each keyword, cycling through the array in an outer
foreach loop: foreach $keyword (@keywords)
The keywords should be in all caps
You might do better to make an altenation:
$keywords = join(|, @keywords);
if ( $wholefile =~ /^\s*($keywords)\s*$/mo ) { # do you want 'i' ?
rather than the loop. Worth a benchmark, but one search for multiple
matches is probably faster than multiple searches for some sized files.
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