Oh, hang on a second, there was a valid reason why I wanted RegExp, actually, I forgot.
grep will still search the whole array @words, right?
My original code terminates as soon as it fails to match one word in the array which is what I wanted as the file is huge. Ok, it's not the best code at all, but it doesn't have to search the entire array every time.
I haven't benchmarked to check yet, but I guess grep might take longer.
I was hoping for a RegExp that stopped its search on a mismatch so I think your second solution might be faster, I will check.
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The List::Util module has a first function which may be what you want here instead of grep.
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