On 2/2/19 6:21 AM, Brad Gilbert wrote:
`.index` is going to be the fastest because it is directly using NQP ops which are built into the VM.'abcdefg'.index('de'); # 3 If you want all of the indexes, use `.indices` 'abcdefabc'.indices('abc'); # 0, 6 `.index` will return `Nil` if it doesn't find anything, and `.indices` will return an empty list. 'abc'.index('ZZ'); # Nil 'abc'.indices('ZZ'); # () To see the actual code implementing these (and other similar methods): - .index: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/src/core/Str.pm6#L255-L284 - .indices: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/src/core/Str.pm6#L206-L252 - .contains: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/src/core/Str.pm6#L183-L203 - .rindex: https://github.com/rakudo/rakudo/blob/master/src/core/Str.pm6#L294-L323 On Sat, Feb 2, 2019 at 5:13 AM ToddAndMargo via perl6-users <perl6-us...@perl.org> wrote:Hi All, What is the fastest way to find the index of a sub string in a string? -T
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