Re^3: pattern matching with large regex

In your 'one_large' example you get the first match. In 'many_small' you get the last one, try adding a last when you get a match in the for loop and see what happens.

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Re^4: pattern matching with large regex by Anonymous Monk on Aug 13, 2005 at 22:10 UTC
Nice catch but `last` won't help here because a match will be the exception. Most of the time we check it all and fail to match, but in production `last` definitely belongs there.	[reply]


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