perl regex modifiers

[Alex Rice]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 07:56  PM, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 07:21 PM, Mark Brownell wrote:
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>>   "perlRegEx = 13,  PNLP = 3" using:
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>>   put "<perl>(.*)(</perl>)" into regEx
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> I wonder if--by one making a few assumptions--this can be optimized.

The ".*" is the most general pattern and so it's the worst, performance 
wise. By restricting the pattern a bit we can speed it up. Using Mark's 
test case with "<perl>([^<]+)(</perl>)" the run-times are almost 
identical.

Alex Rice, Software Developer
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