perlquestion crabbdean Hi Fellow Monks and Nuns,<br><br> I'm rewriting a perl module to do file listing because quite frankly I don't like File::Find. I've got it listing beautifully, its fast and in OO. I want to now add features. One is to be able to specify types of files or directories to match against.<br><br> In essence you have to be able to specify many types of files (eg. ~*.doc, ~*.tmp etc). It then has to check each file against ALL these types. Simply I want to know, what is the fastest way of doing this?<br><br> So far I'm considered:<br> 1. Storing the regex string into the values of hashes and then doing a regex against each of the search hash values. <CODE> $found = 0; $hash{1} = '*.doc'; $hash{2} = '*.xls'; $hash{3} = '*.ppt'; map { $found = 1 if $file =~ /$_/; } values(%hash); </CODE><br> 2. OR stringing all the searchstrings together into one big regex <CODE> $found = 0; $hash{1} = '*.doc'; $hash{2} = '*.xls'; $hash{3} = '*.ppt'; for (values(%hash)) { $string .= $_ . "|"; } $found = 1 if $file =~ /$string/; </CODE> Any other ideas? Speed is the key here. Thanks.<br><br> Oh, and if you have any other requests for what you'd like in this module or frequent types of things you do against files in your scripts, I'll see what I can do to add them in. <div class="pmsig"> <div class="pmsig-319416"> <br> [id://319416|Dean]<br> The Funkster of Mirth<br> <i><small>Programming these days takes more than a lone avenger with a compiler. - sam<br> [http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1149.txt|RFC1149: A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers ]</i></small> </div></div>