Greetings, On Friday, January 25, 2002, at 10:56 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> /[fF][oO][oO]/ better than /foo/i > > That'd be Mr. RE Jeffrey Freidl in the Mastering RE/Owl book. > The parser > has to do less backtracking or something. I have to disagree; while I have read the RE/Owl (I hear there is another in the works?) I feel that /[fF][oO][oO]/ lacks clarity over /foo/i You are correct, its butt-ugly but pg 280 goes over the details. For the word while (ugly vs. /i) /i is 50 times slower. While he gets it down to a mere 77% slower and cautions not to get hung up about it, it is worth thinking about if you need the speed, esp. w/ a big RE. a
