Re^5: Best practice for reading delimited file

[SuicideJunkie]

Ah, nifty!

Since Perl v5.10.0, you can use the /p match operator flag and the ${^PREMATCH} , ${^MATCH} , and ${^POSTMATCH} variables instead so you only suffer the performance penalties.

Is that sentence missing a "once" at the end perhaps?

[Jenda]

I think it's missing "for this regexp, not for all regexps anywhere in your script+modules".

[Kenosis]

That certainly is a curiously obscure assertion, given the performance statements a bit later in the documentation. I think you're correct that something is missing here, but I'm not sure it's "once at the end".

[SuicideJunkie]

Its just that that's the first thing you see when doing a search-find for the name. It makes it sound like you get all the performance penalties associated with $`.

If it has all the same penalties as before then its clearly bad to use, so further details don't really matter. ;)