From: "hitesh.jasani@..." Date: 2006-02-28T22:33:35+09:00 Subject: Re: string contains one of these??? Actually if you flip it around as 'leagues & words.split' it turns out to have some significant performance advantages in many cases. See http://www.jasani.org/articles/2006/02/28/adding-the-science-back-to-computer-science for more details. - Hitesh http://www.jasani.org/