Revision: that Cincinnati Perl Mongers found an error in the benchmark script used for this post. Match Anything Quickly - Revision 1 discusses their findings and links to a revised benchmark script. -- TRW 2022-09-02

Sometimes I want to filter a set of strings, but the details of the filter are not known beforehand. In particular, I may want a null filter, which simply accepts anything.

This looks like a job for a regular expression, but I can think of at least two implementation…