Re: string comparison

Jürgen Exner schreef:

> Perl has a perfectly fine eq operator for comparing strings. There is
> no need to launch the big and expensive RE gun

OK, but that argument vaporizes if the RE was or will be loaded for
other parts of the program anyway.

> and then jump through
> hoops to "make it work" (e.g. for RE special characters).

No need to jump through hoops:

if ($a =~ m/\A(apple
|banana
|orange
)
\z/x) {
(untested)


> Would be interesting to benchmark a simple eq in a loop versus the
> concatenated or'ed REs. My gut feeling is that the loop with eq will
> be much faster

Compiled simple regexes are also very fast. I'll try benchmark later.

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