From: jweirich@...
Date: 2000-12-07T15:02:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:6880] Re: Equivalent to Perl's /g and pos()?

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Tilly <ben_tilly@hotmail.com> writes:

    >> The "slow" method is O(n*n) as expected.  Both the "strscan" and the
    >> "scan" methods are O(n).

    Ben> Both of the scan methods are incompatible with
    Ben> context-sensitive tokenizing.  Guess what I want to do? :-)

And StringScanner is incompatible because ... it only matches from the
front of the string?

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