>>>>> "SAC" == Scott A Crosby <Scott> writes:
SAC> Yes. Thanks.. For my current work, observe this regexp used by SA: SAC> 2 '[EMAIL PROTECTED](?:[\-.0-9A-Z_a-z]+\.)+\w+' SAC> Feed it a bunch of dot's followed by a non-word... SAC> Say... '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' SAC> and, on some regexp interpreters, that line will take a few minutes to SAC> fail to match. I've not tested perl; you can if you wish. Well, perl eats thru that one faster than you can blink. On a dual 1.25GHz G4 powermac running perl 5.8.0 with this script: #!/opt/local/bin/perl -wT use strict; use Time::HiRes qw(gettimeofday); my $str = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; my $st = gettimeofday; $str =~ m/[EMAIL PROTECTED](?:[\-.0-9A-Z_a-z]+\.)+\w+/; my $et = gettimeofday; print "started $st\nended $et\nelapsed ".($et-$st)."\n"; it prints this: started 1058557662.08352 ended 1058557662.08387 elapsed 0.000345945358276367 The regexp engine in perl is quite smart, and if you give it hints, it gets even better... -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Vivek Khera, Ph.D. Khera Communications, Inc. Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Rockville, MD +1-240-453-8497 AIM: vivekkhera Y!: vivek_khera http://www.khera.org/~vivek/ ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
