On 08/04/2011 11:11, Dave Pawson wrote:
I really couldn't contemplate writing such a regex to be honest David.
if you have a whitespace list of words then the regex is
string-join(tokenize($list,'\s+'),'|')
is that so hard to contemplate?
or you could, as Wolfgang just commented, try to give the regex engine a
helping hand by pre-optimizing that regex by pulling out common prefixes.
David
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