Hello
The reaseon why PCRE is faster is because the POSIX standard demands to
return the longest matching string which means POSIX checks all possible
matches while PCRE simply returns the first valid match. In cases where
there is no match both have to check all matches.
The other thing is,
Pablo Gosse wrote:
Hi all. Quick quesiton about PCRE vs. POSIX-extended regular
expressions.
How much of a difference is there between these two types of regular
expressions. I know I've read that PCRE is faster, but is it that much
of a difference?
PCRE are _way_ more advanced,
Hi all. Quick quesiton about PCRE vs. POSIX-extended regular
expressions.
How much of a difference is there between these two types of regular
expressions. I know I've read that PCRE is faster, but is it that much
of a difference?
A while ago I had to write a bunch of regular expression
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