perl regex modifiers

[Mark Brownell]

On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 10:06  PM, Alex Rice wrote:

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

Ten seconds ago I sent this to Dar off-list:

> What do you mean? I don't get it.
>
> Mark

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