How to get the difference between two lists?

Wouter wouter.abraham at scarlet.be
Tue Apr 5 13:12:40 EDT 2005


Could you compile a oneliner regex that worked in rev's filter function?

completely amazed,
W.


On 05 Apr 2005, at 18:58, Dar Scott wrote:

>
> On Apr 5, 2005, at 7:40 AM, Wouter wrote:
>
>> It would have been nice if the "filter" function was fully regex 
>> compatible then Dar's idea of turning it into a regex statement could 
>> produce something like a one-liner.
>>
>
> I tried it and it was a oneliner.
>
> It was awfully slow.  It took six seconds (IIRC) for a thousand and 
> couldn't compile the regex for 10,000.
>
> There have been several times when I tried using the replaceText() 
> function and was surprised at how slow it was.  I may be thinking 
> about it wrong.
>
> Dar
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