Re^2: Precompiling substitution regex

[FreakyGreenLeaky]

in reply to Re: Precompiling substitution regex
in thread Precompiling substitution regex

Thanks moritz, that will work. Is there any way of achieving that without having the substitutions in a separate array?

[moritz]

Well, you could of course store an array of closures that each does a substitution, and call those in turn - but it might slow down things again. Or you could store regexes and substitutions in the same array, but distinguished by different indexes (even/odd or first half/second half).

But I don't think you can easily store a precompiled whole substitution in a single scalar.

[AnomalousMonk]

... store regexes and substitutions in the same array, but distinguished by different indexes ...

An example of what I think moritz is referring to (and the way I think I would approach the problem):

>perl -wMstrict -le
"my @subs = (
   [ qr{ (?i)  foo | bar }xms => 'quux' ],
   [ qr{ fee | fie | foe }xms => 'fum'  ],
   );
 ;;
 my $string = 'foo fee BAR foe fOo fie FOE';
 for my $ar_sub (@subs) {
   my ($search, $replace) = @$ar_sub;
   $string =~ s{$search}{$replace}g;
   }
 print qq{'$string'};
"
'quux fum quux fum quux fum FOE'

Note that regex modifiers like /g cannot be associated with each individual regex using this approach; something a little more fancy is needed for that.