From: Tod Beardsley <todb@...>
Date: 2008-09-22T23:41:06+09:00
Subject: Re: short regexp question

Anyway, I think the moral of this particular long-missing story is, if
you can regex test for smaller anchors first, you can then fail to
match much faster. IOW:

matched =false
if str.match(/b/)
 matched = true if str.match(/a[^b]*b/)
end
matched

On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 9:31 AM, Tod Beardsley <todb@planb-security.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 20, 2008 at 6:40 AM, Robert Klemme
> <shortcutter@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hm, it seems line 13 and 18 are identical.  Where's the lazy quantifier?
>
> grr curse my copy paste skills. fixed. thanks for paying attention,
> Robert. Your bm test is, of course, much more useful.
>
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