Re: How do I tighten this with map?

[japhy]

This assumes %fileHash is empty beforehand, and that you meant to escape that . in the regex...

%fileHash = map {
  /^(\w\w\w\d*):log\.$date$/ ? ($1, $_) : ()
} readdir DIR;

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[mikeB]

Just curious why you replaced \w{3} with \w\w\w.

[Hofmator]

That's a little speed optimisation, with /\w{3}/ the regex engine sees the {} construct and has to start counting. If you write it out it's just three single characters in a row, so no counting => quicker.

Of course, this could be optimised by the regex compiler but that wasn't the case at the time of writing of Mastering Regular Expressions. At least this is where I got this from. As japhy is more up to date on this I assume he has checked that this optimisation hasn't been done in the meantime.

-- Hofmator

[SparkeyG]

Thank you japhy. That's what I was looking for exactly, and I think I understand most of it.

--SparkeyG