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Re:Stop avoiding regular expressions damn it by Achshar on Sunday May 12, 2013 @10:23AM (#5694336)
If I am reading the chart correctly, doubled performance would still not be enough.
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Re:Stop avoiding regular expressions damn it by buro9 on Sunday May 12, 2013 @10:26AM (#5694351)
Absolutely. But the original version linked was twice as slow as need be.

For trivial replacements string manipulation I find is faster and safer (fewer bugs). But there is some threshold of complexity in which regular expressions are both more performant and safer.

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