From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T05:46:30+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression too big

On 11/12/06, Peter Schrammel <peter.schrammel@gmx.de> wrote:
> got  problem with big regexes:
> I have a regex of about 70000+ words concated with '|' that I'd like to
> match as a regex. /bla|blub|foo|bar|.....(70000)/

if you have many words to check for then consider using a
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter


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Simon Strandgaard