Re^2: Regex question

Nice idea, however surely the regex parser in Perl would optimise to that anyway, wouldn't it?

Update: Your method does however offer the advantage of allowing me to find file with a greater length. I'll just use the > 250 bit

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Re^3: Regex question by BioLion (Curate) on Aug 04, 2009 at 14:38 UTC
I don't know - I also don't know whether using .(dot) to match long strings like that would also be expensive, because of how many things could match such a 'loose' regex. But i am out of my depth here, i freely admit to not knowing enough about the inner workings of regexes... Just a something something...	[reply]