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
Peter M. Brigham
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