On Tuesday, April 09, 2013 10:23:34 PM Chet Ramey wrote:
> On 4/9/13 9:56 PM, Dan Douglas wrote:
> > Erm, here it is in a less unreadable format:
>
> It is pretty slow. You forgot to enable `extglob'.
D'oh!
Bad algorithm? I suppose it's lots of backtracking and maybe has to test every
substring for every position in the string. In my version it took about .3 of
a sec, but combining all that into one string with x=${a[*]}, doing the same
on x took about 10 seconds. It's still 0.00 in ksh/zsh.
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Dan Douglas
