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Re: (jeffa) Re: Regular Expression Pieces

by Gilimanjaro (Hermit)
on May 08, 2003 at 10:20 UTC ( [id://256495]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to (jeffa) Re: Regular Expression Pieces
in thread Regular Expression Pieces

If performance is not an issue, .* is usually a lot more readable...

Wouldn't it be nice if the regex engine optimizes .*'s followed by a character(class) to a negated character class? Seems true to DWIM to me...

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