SPUG: SQL syntax Regular Expression

[Colin Meyer]

On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 12:21:17AM +0000, Dan Sanderson wrote:
> 
> This may or may not be worth mentioning in this particular case, but since
> I learned this lesson the hard way, I feel like mentioning it every time I
> see $` and $' (and $&) mentioned.  From camel, 24.2.1:
> 
>  Avoid $& and its two buddies, $` and $'. Any occurrence in your program
>  causes all matches to save the searched string for possible future
>  reference. (However, once you've blown it, it doesn't hurt to have more
>  of them.)

>From perldoc perlre:

  As of 5.005, $& is not so costly as the other two.

Have fun,
-C.

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