[sf-perl] regular expression ?

[David Alban]

is there any appreciable loss (performance or otherwise) in compiling
one's regex's even if they don't end up being used in a loop or
frequently called subroutine?  i do it as a matter of course.

also, i tend not to trust whitespace.  for me this:

  m/looking for some phrase/

would become:

  m{ looking \s+ for \s+ some \s+ phrase }xms

i might even add the /i for case insensitivity.

2011/9/26 yary <not.com at gmail.com>:
>
> On Mon, Sep 26, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Francisco Obispo <fobispo at isc.org> wrote:
>>
>> And if the process is running continuously and matching several of these,
>> you might want to:
>>
>> my $patterm= qr/Thank you for your order:\s*(\d+)/;
>>
>> if ($text =~ m/$patterm/){
>>        my $order_num=$1;
>>        # do stuff with $order_num
>>
>> }
>
> I don't think that improves performance or readability- the reg exp would be
> compiled once at load time either way.

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