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[William C. (Bill) Jones]

Matching 1 Char is faster :)

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On Monday, October 14, 2002, at 11:00  PM, J Proctor wrote:

> I'm far too lazy to actually go test /\s/ vs / / to see which, if 
> either,
> is faster; without doing so I will make no claim either way.  I've 
> merely
> speculated that I could imagine / / being faster, because ultimately a
> regex comes down to character comparisons, and one is faster than four.


J, you and I both know that whether /\s/ is slower or faster 
than / / will make no difference in the long haul.

Mainly because I usually want to get RID of spaces...

Now, if /^$/ were only faster - then I could die happy  :)
-Sx-