From: George George <george.githinji@...>
Date: 2009-10-15T15:24:35+09:00
Subject: matching against a zillion patterns

i have some script in which i would like to match a string against
'many' regular expressions patterns.

def group(string)
 if string=~ /pattern1 |patter2|pattern3|pattern(N)/  #where N =>100
   group =1
else
 ....
 end
end

My worry is the amount of patterns that i have (exceeding 400) and the
efficiency and sanity of such an approach.What would you advice?


Thank you.
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