On Apr 19, Brian Smith said:
>if ($line =~ /\"/) { $line =~ s/\"//g; }
That is slower, if anything, than just doing
$line =~ s/"//g;
which might even be slower than
$line =~ tr/"//d;
The backslash can be removed -- " needn't be escaped here.
The problem with
if ($line =~ /foo/) { $line =~ s/foo// }
is that you're testing the same thing TWICE.
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