Switch, Case and wild-cards?

Peter M. Brigham pmbrig at gmail.com
Fri Dec 28 14:36:03 EST 2012


On Dec 28, 2012, at 2:05 PM, Peter Haworth wrote:

> Im guessing that regular expressions are how
> items, lines, and words are implemented deep down inside LC.

I seem to remember from previous postings on this list that regex expressions are actually much slower than the LC-native offset functions when munching on large text files. Somebody correct me if I'm wrong, but if this is true, I doubt that the engine uses them at all. 

-- Peter

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