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in reply to Re: Is there a way around grep?
in thread Is there a way around grep?

Of course, if only looking for a match a good addition would be a last to break the loop as soon as a match is found.

Or use List::Util::first

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Re^3: Is there a way around grep?
by AnomalousMonk (Archbishop) on Oct 11, 2011 at 22:42 UTC
Re^3: Is there a way around grep?
by ikegami (Patriarch) on Oct 15, 2011 at 08:26 UTC
    If you're looking for speed, I bet grep is normally faster than for+last.