dblackshell, On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 5:10 PM, dblackshell <backbon...@gmail.com> wrote: > I don't know if there is a difference in performance. > -------------- > > I did the test in performance... for the following string: <script > type="text/javascript"> > The results are self explanatory: > > <\W*script[^>]*> matched it in 29 steps > <\W*script.*?> matched it in 73 steps > > plus/minus 1 or 2 (had to calculate the steps myself) :P >
Steps? How do you calculate steps for a regex? Isn't it better to use the python timeit module? Cheers, -- Andrés Riancho http://www.bonsai-sec.com/ http://w3af.sourceforge.net/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ W3af-develop mailing list W3af-develop@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/w3af-develop
