re* functions are inherently slower than their find* equivalents. There's a startup cost for the RegEx engine.
--Ben Doom Barney Boisvert wrote: > Those aren't equivalent. REFind does a case-sensitive RegEx search. > find (which you didn't list) does a case-sensitive search. contains > does a case-INsensitive search. I'd expect contains and findNoCase to > be roughly equivalent, with REFindNoCase lagging slightly. Find and > and REFind should be slightly faster than their NoCase equivalents. > > cheers, > barneyb > > On 11/1/07, Larry Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> Suffering from a post Halloween brain freeze here, but I cannot remember >> which would be faster: >> >> <cfif foo Contains "xyz"> >> >> or >> >> <cfif refind(foo,"xyz",1,false)> >> >> thanks, >> >> larry >> >> -- >> Larry C. Lyons >> Web Analyst >> BEI Resources >> American Type Culture Collection >> http://www.beiresources.org >> email: llyons(at)atcc(dot)org >> tel: 703.365.2700.2678 >> -- >> >> > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion is delivering applications solutions at at top companies around the world in government. Find out how and where now http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/showcase/index.cfm?event=finder&productID=1522&loc=en_us Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:292497 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
