On Fri, Aug 28, 2009 at 2:58 AM, David Calavera<[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi, I'm working in a patch for an issue and I want to use a regular
> expression to solve it but I have a question, what regular expression engine
> should I use, java default pattern classes or joni engine? is there any
> convention for that?
Depends on what you're trying to accomplish. If you're working with
Strings, then probably just using Java regexes would be fine. If
you're operating on byte arrays or ByteLists or a RubyString, then
directly constructing a RubyRegexp or using joni might be more
appropriate.
/Nick
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