Re^3: Matching against list of patterns

[tachyon]

Remove the map quotemeta and you can use REs to your hears delight. The only issue is then extra | in those REs. My example captures the physical match. It is a simple task to map that back to the pattern (or patterns) that match that if required. The benchmark at Re^2: Matching against list of patterns shows a full order of magnitude speed improvement so the optimiser does OK.

[Eyck]

Note that that benchmark is against the code that still does the whole 'foreach' thing, only in different way.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand how can I accomplish this simple task of mapping 'physical match back to the pattern or patterns that match'.

This is the task that we're trying to accomplish at first place, so how is it 'simple' if after a bunch of lines of ingenious code we reduce the problem to itself?

Either I'm missing something, or I described the problem in confusing way?