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James Aguilar

Member since Dec 11, 2008

Recent Blog Comments By James Aguilar

  • Regular Expression Finds vs. String Finds

    Posted on Sep 28, 2007 at 1:10 PM

    We should run an experiment. I did look up some of the implementation details after I posted that comment, and I can see that the the "NFA" backtracking solution is different from the DFA-based one I learned in my algorithm class. (Also, it's been a few years since I took that class and the detail... read more »

  • Regular Expression Finds vs. String Finds

    Posted on Sep 27, 2007 at 11:31 PM

    Steve is wrong on the topic of regular expressions here. /S(?:a(?:mantha|rah)|h(?:an(?:ai|on)|ylvia)|Janel/ would take almost exactly the same amount of time as /Sarah|Sylvia|Samantha|Shania|Shanon|Janel/. This is because any competent regular expression library compiles the regular expression int... read more »

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