[buug] Re: regex question

[Nick Moffitt]

begin  Jeremy Brand, B.S.  quotation:
> Lol.  I agree with you, but after thinking about this,
> what's a regex in efficiency compared to starting up PERL.
> I would have to speculate (because I'm too lazy right now
> to time() it) that it is relatively negligible.

	Depends on your data set.  Starting up Perl may be a long
time, but it's constant.  greedy grabs are going to be O(N*M) where M
is the length of your string.  Knocking down M speeds things up for
large N.

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