Re^5: Converting multiple spaces to nbsp

I thought it was a little easier on the eyes, too. I'm surprised the look behind is faster.

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Re^6: Converting multiple spaces to nbsp by GrandFather (Saint) on Jun 17, 2005 at 07:48 UTC
We don't know that yet, but I'll play with benchmarking it this weekend. My guess is that the look behind translates into a "find a space, slurp any more spaces, do the replace". My version does similar work in the search phase, but does more work in the replace phase. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]