From: Bill Atkins <batkins57@...>
Date: 2005-01-10T12:38:19+09:00
Subject: Re: brute force string search

On Mon, 10 Jan 2005 12:32:03 +0900, Bertram Scharpf
<lists@bertram-scharpf.de> wrote:
> What about this:
> 
>   str = File.new( 'longfile').read
>   str.scan /.*/ do |x| puts x if x =~ /xyz/ end

How is that any different from Idea 1?

To the OP, 0.5 seconds seems pretty fast to me.  I doubt a C extension
would make much difference since index is already written in C and
probably already highly optimized.

Bill

-- 
$stdout.sync = true
"Just another Ruby hacker.".each_byte do |b|
  ('a'..'z').step do|c|print c+"\b";sleep 0.007 end;print b.chr
end; print "\n"