On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 12:32:45AM -0600, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > In recent years CPUs have become so blindingly fast it makes no > difference. Any excess cycles burned by a non anchored regex were idle > cycles anyway. There are good arguments for anchoring expressions, but > saving CPU cycles is simply no longer one of them, not for years now.
Mere excuse for sloppiness. Always anchor, then when possible
discard leading "^.*" and trailing ".*$".
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Viktor.
