From: Danny Challis Date: 2010-06-25T00:45:52+09:00 Subject: Re: Count substrings in string, scan too slow Thanks Jesus, This method actually decreased the runtime by quite a bit, so thanks for the help! However, I still need something even faster if it exists, so any other ideas would be appreciated. I may have to just implement this part is C or something. Danny. Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote: > On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 5:04 PM, Danny Challis > wrote: >> >> Once again, what I'm really looking for is something fast. �I've tried >> using external linux commands such as awk, but that was much much >> slower. Any ideas? > > I don't know how slow is scan for you. An implementation using > String#index and a loop is a little bit faster, but not too much: >... > > Don't know if this is enough for you, probably not :-) > > Jesus. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.