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6.16: How do I efficiently match many regular expressions at once?

( contributed by brian d foy )

Avoid asking Perl to compile a regular expression every time you want to
match it. In this example, perl must recompile the regular expression
for every iteration of the foreach() loop since it has no way to know
what $pattern will be.

@patterns = qw( foo bar baz );

I am noting the continued demise of Perl programming.

Participation within this group is down about seventy-five
percent from traditional historical averages. The new
"perl.beginners" groups are the verge of extinction.

Of interest to me is the policy of "banishment" by the
Perl beginners groups. The main group, perl.beginners,
participation is cut in half and more since a banishment
policy has been effected. The beginners cgi group is down
to a near zero participation level.

Perl was once an open source programming language. Today,
this is not true. Many proficient Perl programmers are no
longer allowed to participate in discussions of Perl. This,
of course, does contribute to the demise of Perl programming.

Looks to me a select few are converting Perl into a "closed source"
programming language, this is, only allowing a select few to
continue participating in discussions of and development of
the Perl programming language.

Does anybody know of a perl or something similiar that can take a csv
database and create a report. Assumptions the csv file is presorted
and is delimited with | pipes. Only one field will need to match.

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I've looked at ezscripting.com but they can't group by city.

Thanks,
Chris

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reduce the number of repeated questions as well as allow the community
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6.12: What does it mean that regexes are greedy? How can I get around it?

Most people mean that greedy regexes match as much as they can.
Technically speaking, it's actually the quantifiers ("?", "*", "+",
"{}") that are greedy rather than the whole pattern; Perl prefers local
greed and immediate gratification to overall greed. To get non-greedy
versions of the same quantifiers, use ("??", "*?", "+?", "{}?").

An example:

$s1 = $s2 = "I am very very cold";
$s1 =~ s/ve.*y //; # I am cold
$s2 =~ s/ve.*?y //; # I am very cold

I run perl v5.8.7 and my regular expresion is ($txt =~ m/(\w+|é\w+)/g)
which do not take every utf-8 word. How to make this regular
expression to take every utf-8 word ?

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I am trying to develop a standalone application using pp (since the
original application uses 12 libraries:

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6.17: Why don't word-boundary searches with "\b" work for me?

(contributed by brian d foy)

Ensure that you know what \b really does: it's the boundary between a
word character, \w, and something that isn't a word character. That
thing that isn't a word character might be \W, but it can also be the
start or end of the string.

It's not (not!) the boundary between whitespace and non-whitespace, and
it's not the stuff between words we use to create sentences.

In regex speak, a word boundary (\b) is a "zero width assertion",
meaning that it doesn't represent a character in the string, but a
condition at a certain position.