From: "Iñaki Baz Castillo" <ibc@...>
Date: 2008-04-15T17:54:04+09:00
Subject: Is faster handling hexadecimal values than handling chars?

Hi, could I know if it's faster using hexadecimal values instead of
charsm in Ruby?
I mean:

a) char =~ /[\x61-\x7A]|[\x41-\x5A]/

b) char =~ /[A-Z]|[a-z]/

Both are the same, but maybe a) operation is faster than b) ?

Thanks a lot.

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Iñaki Baz Castillo
<ibc@aliax.net>