From: Jamie Macey <jamie.macey@...>
Date: 2006-11-25T09:35:04+09:00
Subject: Re: [QUIZ] DictionaryMatcher (#103)

On 11/24/06, dblack@wobblini.net <dblack@wobblini.net> wrote:
> What's the ruling on priority and "greediness"?  In other words,
> given:
>
>    dm << "hi"
>    dm << "child"
>
> what would:
>
>    dm =~ "children"
>
> give?  Would it be different if you added "child" first?  Or is there
> a rule about finding the longest match?

I'm doing the same thing a regexp does.

In this case, both /hi|child/ =~ 'children' and /child|hi/ =~
'children' return 0, so I'm returning the index of the first character
in the string that matches the uber-regexp we're standing in for.

- Jamie