On Jun 28, John W. Krahn said: >> $line =~ /^(\d+\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+) (.+?) (.+?) \[(.+?)\] \"(?:(.+?) )?(.+)(?: >> (.+?))?\" (\d+) (.+?) \"(.+?)\" \"(.+?)\"$/; > >If you are not using $2, $3, $5, $7 and $10 why capture them? You >should probably replace .+? with something more meaningful that won't >backtrack.
There's probably not much backtracking happening, anyway. Quantifiers are intelligent. But it's probably saner to make most of them \S+ instead. -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ CPAN ID: PINYAN [Need a programmer? If you like my work, let me know.] <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
