On Sunday, May 19, 2002, at 02:30 , Ross Esposito wrote:
> I "think" split is compiled only once while regex (as used in the previous
> posts) is compiled everytime a new line is to be matched. (you can use qr/
> /)
>
> Someone fire up Benchmark. I could be wrong :)
>
> xgunnerx
funny you shoul
nt: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:31 AM
To: Brian; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: regular expression vs split
I don't believe that a regex would be faster in an instance like this, but
someone please correct me if I'm wrong. It seems that it would add (albeit a
very minimal amount) processing
t Robnett
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From: Brian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, May 17, 2002 10:17 AM
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Subject: RE: regular expression vs split
Curious, but I've always thought that regex was much qui
Curious, but I've always thought that regex was much quicker then
split for situations such as this...
I'd always figured that split was basically a (and the regex for this
is probably wrong, but you can get the jist of it) /[^($delimiter |
end of string)/ with a dumping of the match minus the
