On Tue, 15 Apr 1997, era eriksson wrote:
As an aside, I can't see how it could +hurt+ to change that .* into
(.*\<)? -- a better bounded search is also more efficient, no?
If this is a faq, please email me directly.
Could you explain how this is more efficient? As I read this (with by
admission the eyes of a novice) I think it should try to satisfy the greedy
.* by going to the end of the line, then work backwards character by
character until it meets a "<". (I'm also not sure why the left angle
bracket is escaped here.)
I don't doubt that "(.*\<)" is a better choice than ".*" but I would like
to know why before I do it.
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