From: Paul Lutus <nospam@...>
Date: 2006-11-14T02:20:09+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression too big

Ken Bloom wrote:

/ ...

>> I think this (e.g speed improvement) would have been true in Perl also.
>>
> 
> His regex isn't anchored to the beginning and end of the string.

Yes, I see that now. From the appearance of the data, it looks as though he
is matching whole words, but that's only an assumption on my part.

> This makes hashes useless for the kind of comparison he seems to want to
> perform.

Yes, unless he is matching whole words, he is stuck with regexes. There is
very likely to be a refactoring for this problem, and it would have to
start with a clear statement of the problem to be solved.

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Paul Lutus
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