Re: Performance problem with regex

Hi,

in the meantime I have mailed to Jeffrey Friedl and just got back a 
changed regex that runs a hundred times faster than my original version.

    "\\{([^:}]+)(?::([^\\}]*))?\\}(.*?)\\{(\\1)\\}"

Thanks for the help.

Leo.

On Mittwoch, März 26, 2003, at 02:24  Uhr, <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Matthias,
>
> Try the following. Based on the sample you provided, it seemed to 
> produce
> the results which are consistant the original regex. I only tested 
> this with
> java.util.regex.
>
> String regex = "\\{(\\w\\w*):?(?:\\w*?)\\}(?:.*?)\\{(\\1)\\}";
>
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