On 8/3/10 5:23 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> But why not teach the matcher the difference between a fixed-length
> pattern, vs. one that has * or other extended globbing that would cause
> a variable length match? That is, since you know that [^;] can match at
> most one character, there is no need to search from the current position
> to the end of the string on each iteration - just search the first byte
> of the string.
I could do that, and that's probably the best way to approach this, but
it doesn't exist in the current implementation.
Chet
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