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Re^2: Things I Don't Use in Perl
by rjbs (Pilgrim) on Aug 24, 2005 at 02:40 UTC
    My understanding of "when study is needed" was: never. I thought that the results of studying were never used, these days. Is that not true?
    rjbs

      I think study does as it always did. It analyzes the string and builds a data structure from it such that repeated REs on that string are ever so slightly more efficient in execution time.