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2013/7/28 Peter Haworth <p...@lcsql.com> > Yes, I can believe that. don't think regex is the most efficient thing in > the world. Having using them for years, I still think they are efficient :) But as any tools, you have to use them for the right purpose.. Some of the tests I did resulted in LC running out of memory > too! That's another thing I think should work better with matchText and > matchChunk. Any errors, eg a bad regex, result in a runtime error - would > be much better if they put something into the result. > Which has nothing to do with regex but more the way it's implemented in LC. On Sun, Jul 28, 2013 at 12:54 AM, Geoff Canyon <gcan...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > </snip> - it almost certainly > > doesn't matter for the likely use cases > Yes, that's the point. Considering one knows about regex, it's most of the times faster and even often easier to write a regex than to code some lines of pure script language. > but if you throw a string with a > > few thousand (s and )s at it, seconds will go by before you get the > result > Who has to deal with such cases ? :) Best, Thierry ------------------------------------------------ Thierry Douez - http://sunny-tdz.com Maker of sunnYperl - sunnYmidi - sunnYmage _______________________________________________ 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
