in reply to Regexes are slow (or, why I advocate String::Index)

strpbrk() (whose name I can't decipher)

In case anyone still wonders, the function name has been demystified:

    <japhy> string pointer break

Which still might not make much more sense (it doesn't to me), but at least we know what it stands for.

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Re: Re: Regexes are slow (or, why I advocate String::Index)
by Fletch (Bishop) on May 15, 2004 at 03:18 UTC
    char *strpbrk(const char *s, const char *charset);

    It takes a string (char*) and returns a pointer (char *) to the position to break out the portion of the first string at a position with a character from the charset string.

    OK, not much better. But it is more or less orthagonal to things such as compare no more than n characters from two strings (strncmp()).

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        It takes a string (char*) and returns a pointer (char *) to the position to break out the portion of the first string at a position with a character from the charset string.
       I think that this nomenclature goes back to SNOBOL pattern matching, which dates back to 1962.

      There are these two complementary pattern matching operators in SNOBOL:

      SPAN matches a string containing any characters in its argument list, BREAK matches a string containing any characters not in its argument list. I think the implied mnemonic is to SPAN a substring containing a character set or BREAK (stop matching) on a substring containing anything not in the character set.

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