From: matz@... (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
Date: 2001-08-31T17:36:17+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:20611] Re: String.subst[!] RCR

Hi,

In message "[ruby-talk:20607] Re: String.subst[!] RCR"
    on 01/08/31, Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@ruby-lang.org> writes:

||I'm sure it _is_ faster ... but I believe that's it because of subst is
||written in ruby, while sub is in C.
|
|I meant RE substitute can be as fast as C implemeted subst.

By the way, if you can live with single substitution (i.e. "sub", not
"gsub"), you can use String#[]= with string index.

  a = "abcdef"
  a["cd"] = "CD"

							matz.