Re: [PLUG] PCRE is_a_regex?

[Walt Mankowski <waltman@pobox.com>]

On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 03:50:01PM -0400, JP Vossen wrote:
> I have 300K+ valid regular expressions.  I am abstracting out one more 
> level on about 100K of them, and instead of being matched as regexps, 
> they will be matched as static strings in a hash table (in Java). 

Are you doing that because the hash table lookup is faster?  It's not
obvious to me that it should be.  Doing a regex comparison on a plain
string should be pretty close to just checking if the two strings are
equal, and that's going to be O(n).  A hash lookup also has to be O(n)
since you've got to read the string to hash it.

Walt

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