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.
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