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By "growing", do you mean you have variables that contain the strings and their content gets longer over time? Or do you need to read the strings from outside (a file, socket)?

The answer also depends on the regex. For a simple regex, just starting where you left off might be enough (e.g. qr/X/), but even for a bit more complex regex qr/abc/, you can't just continue with the newly added characters, as the original string might have end in "ab" and the new character might be "c" that completes the match. For even more complex regexes like qr/a.*b/ you might need to return unknown number of characters to the left (i.e. to the last "a").

map{substr$_->[0],$_->[1]||0,1}[\*||{},3],[[]],[ref qr-1,-,-1],[{}],[sub{}^*ARGV,3]

In reply to Re: Growing strings in search by choroba
in thread Growing strings in search by b4swine

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