note davido <p>I don't know how it benchmarks, and would need to be convinced that it matters. ;) However, here is another way to do it.</p> <c> my %swaps = ( foo => 'bar', bar => 'foo' ); $str =~ s/(foo|bar)/$swaps{$1}/g </c> <div class="pmsig"><div class="pmsig-281137"> <br /><p>Dave</p> </div></div> 965610 965610