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regex2 - used A-Z in place of A..Z as I've never used the latter before and can't even figure what it would do at the moment

Not what I'd thought it would do! OK, I made a wrong assumption (getting mixed up between array ranges and regex ranges) - you're quite correct, /$[A-Z]^/ is functionally correct.

I tried your suggestion along side the (now correct) regex and exist, with the following results -

Benchmark: timing 10000000 iterations of exist, index, regex...
     exist: 50 wallclock secs (49.39 usr +  0.01 sys = 49.40 CPU)
     index: 61 wallclock secs (60.64 usr +  0.00 sys = 60.64 CPU)
     regex: 85 wallclock secs (83.18 usr +  0.03 sys = 83.21 CPU)
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It's interesting that I get a bigger difference between the exist and index versions. I wonder what OS & hardware you're running on? Mine is linux v2.2.18 on a Pentium II 400Mhz with 128Mb RAM.

Pete

In reply to Re: Re: Testing a string for a range of characters by BoredByPolitics
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