Re: advice on improving performance of this code

This is more of a question than a recommendation: would using "tr" instead of the regex substitution in the first block would be more efficient?

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Re^2: advice on improving performance of this code by diotalevi (Canon) on Jan 03, 2003 at 22:50 UTC
Yes, but then you have to replace the '\s' with the equivalent escapes something like `tr/\t\r\f\n //d` to match all of what \s means. (assuming no locales or unicode) Fun Fun Fun in the Fluffy Chair	[reply] [d/l]