[Linux dev] Re: Perl and matching several regex's

[Hendrik Visage <hvisage@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 20, 2003 at 04:07:16PM +0200, Oskar Pearson wrote:
> Hi
> 
> In the "Object Oriented Perl" book, there's mention of this;

Is this a paper or electronic book?

> the problem with doing it the easier way is that the perl system
> checks the syntax of the regex every time it's used, is re-parsed,
> and converted into perl's internal table-driven representation.

:) I've found that just now while reading through the FAQs on this:

http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/pod/perlfaq6/How_do_I_efficiently_match_many_regular_.html

> He suggests using the qr operator (man perlop)

As the above do to, but thanx for the snippet below, as that's 
 exactly what I need :)

> my %regexes = (
>         qr /this is a test/ => \&one,
>         qr /this is another test/ => \&two,
> );

Thanx
Hendrik