On Sunday 25 November 2001 10:34 pm, Brent Dax wrote: > Perl 5's REs will always appear faster because Perl 5 has an > intelligent, optimizing regex compiler. For example, take the following > simple regex: > > /a+bc+/ > > pregcomp will optimize that by searching for a 'b' and working outwards > both ways from there. (Actually, it might search for 'abc' and work > from there; I'm not really sure.)
No, it doesn't. (At least not in any production version of Perl.) It proceeds dumbly from left to right. The crux of the other email I sent you. -- Bryan C. Warnock [EMAIL PROTECTED]
