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 pmb...@gmail.com http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
