Loren Wilton wrote: >> What's the difference? Your meta rule is fundamentally identical to >> Loren's rule, is it not?! > > Yes. The difference is the meta doesn't have an indeterminate length > .* match in the middle. > > However, since in this case backtracking shouldn't be possible, the > meta should actually be a little slower than the single regex.
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