From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2008-09-23T00:10:31+09:00
Subject: Re: short regexp question

2008/9/22 Tod Beardsley <todb@planb-security.net>:
> 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

I am not sure.  This approach is likely slower than a single fast RX -
at least if you expect matches most of the time.  It all depends...

Kind regards

robert

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