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in thread regex is too long

How do the methods compare if the target string is longer? Say, about the size of an average piece of SPAM.

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by jhanna (Scribe) on May 09, 2001 at 00:54 UTC
    I've thought about this... To make this work I'll have to chunk the file because I don't want to keep the whole email in memory -- I'd rather stay lean. I could chunk the thing into 100 line pieces, but this makes the code messier.
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