Phoenix.pm: $& discussion

[Doug Miles]

I looked into the $& problem in O'reilly's "Mastering Regular
Expressions", and found that the inefficiency is caused by perl making a
copy of the string that is being matched against.  This is also caused
by using '()'s in a regex (which I am doing), so avoiding the use of $&
won't help.  Also, with the addition of \s* to my pattern (which I have
done), I don't think I can avoid using $&.  Great discussion!

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- Doug

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