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You could use this:
#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; my @numbers = ('012345','0123456'); @numbers = sort{length $b <=> length $a}@numbers; my $regex = join('|',@numbers); my $string = '0123456778945'; $string =~ s!^($regex)(.*)!$1;$2!; print $string;

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Re^2: Regex only the longes Value , and possible speedup Problem
by ultibuzz (Monk) on Nov 14, 2006 at 10:19 UTC
    hi reneeb,
    i just testet your code a bit changed with a live case and it looks like it's working perfectly, and it was fast

    kd ultibuzz

    Update: time for a 500000 file with additional loops for stuff is 2.632 seconds, thats fast ;)