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authorbrian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>2009-10-19 13:19:51 -0500
committerbrian d foy <bdfoy@cpan.org>2009-10-19 13:19:51 -0500
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* Synced the perlfaq
The latest commit in https://github.com/briandfoy/perlfaq is aa2b30a3bcbf1ac69f000fe363b0c384fbc44723 dated Thu Oct 15 20:01:45 2009 -0500
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@@ -713,7 +713,7 @@ X<regular expression, efficiency>
( contributed by brian d foy )
Avoid asking Perl to compile a regular expression every time
-you want to match it. In this example, perl must recompile
+you want to match it. In this example, perl must recompile
the regular expression for every iteration of the C<foreach>
loop since it has no way to know what $pattern will be.
@@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ The C<qr//> operator showed up in perl 5.005. It compiles a
regular expression, but doesn't apply it. When you use the
pre-compiled version of the regex, perl does less work. In
this example, I inserted a C<map> to turn each pattern into
-its pre-compiled form. The rest of the script is the same,
+its pre-compiled form. The rest of the script is the same,
but faster.
@patterns = map { qr/\b$_\b/i } qw( foo bar baz );
@@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ but faster.
}
In some cases, you may be able to make several patterns into
-a single regular expression. Beware of situations that require
+a single regular expression. Beware of situations that require
backtracking though.
$regex = join '|', qw( foo bar baz );