On May 26, 2012, at 5:51 AM, pa...@fsmail.net wrote: > split is slower than the correct regex matching. >
Did you know that split uses a regular expression to find the separators on which to split the string? So your claim is unlikely to be true. In any case, the difference between using split and a single regular expression is likely to be insignificant. You shouldn't worry about such trivial differences. Chris just wants to extract some data from a file, and it won't matter to him if it takes a few extra nanoseconds. The best advice when worrying about efficiency is this: first get the program working correctly. Then, if it is too slow, find out where the bottlenecks are and try to optimize those. Usually, the most gains can be achieved by changing the algorithm, not the implementation. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
