On Friday, July 25, 2003, at 04:23 PM, Mark Brownell wrote:
If this optimizes in a repeat loop faster than my offset() repeat loop handler, and I'll bet it does,...
It might not be faster because each call to the regex engine with matchText() or the other functions, will cause another parse and compile of the regex string by the pcre engine. Unless RR is doing some kind of pattern caching, which would be really neat, or worth a feature-request.
But using regex you might get more work done for each loop- or something.
Perl has a good feature for optimizing regex calls in a loop like this. The "o" modifier tells Perl to compile the regular expression 1 time only, not every loop iteration.
while(<>){ if(/something/o) { ... }; } # perl
Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. http://ARCplanning.com
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