Hannu Krosing wrote:

> I had a (false ?) memory that we used some variant of pcre, and that
> pcre uses BM. I may be false on both  accounts. (I know that python
> borrowed its re module from pcre).

Our code is a derivative from Henry Spencer's code found in Tcl.  It
certainly isn't Boyer Moore, because it processes chars one at a time,
left to right (BM processes right to left).

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