Re: Pattern matching: good practices ?

[David Manura <dm.lua@...>]

On Sat, Dec 26, 2009 at 12:29 PM, David Manura wrote:
>  ('a'):rep(5000):match'a*b'   -- fails slowly (about a second)
>  ('a'):rep(5000):match'^a*b'  -- fails quickly

BTW, s:match'a*b' is equivalent to s:match'^.-(a*b)'.