Re: Ann: regex pack
Alan Baljeu <[email protected]>
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>Oh dear. The huge merit of regular expressions is that they take >linear time. The huge defect of Perl irregular expressions is >that they can take exponential time. The other huge merit of RE is that it's extremely concise. But more than that, when the expression is simple, and easy to write and understand. So like '[a-z]*-red'. I'm not particularly fond of complex regular expressions. -------------- next part -------------- HTML attachment scrubbed and removed