Re: Re: Aharrr!

I'm not sure what "squint at the dubloons" (Pirate for "study $_") does.

Indeed, study looks at a string and indexes the chars for later regex use - pretty much made redundant by qr though. Here though, it's simply decoration. :)

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Re: Re: Re: Aharrr! by bunnyman (Hermit) on Sep 18, 2003 at 14:13 UTC
`study` and `qr` are not the same thing at all. `qr` compiles a regex string into the data structure that represents that regex in memory. `study` processes a string that a regex is going to process later. So the difference is that `qr` speeds up the regex on the right side of `=~` and `study` speeds up the string on the left side.	[reply]


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