Re: Talk about glibc locale format
On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 11:48:32PM +0200, Danilo Segan wrote:
> Today at 23:25, Keld Jørn Simonsen wrote:
>
> > Page 32: Why is .* useles?
>
> Because regular expression of "^[AaBb].*" matches the same thing as
> "^[AaBb]", only the latter has a better chance of gaining better
> performance (though this can probably be easily optimised out in regex
> library).
Yes, both strings will match the same things, so you can say that .* is
useless. I think the motivation behind it was to say, "all strings that
begin with ... irregardless of the ending " but the .* does not add
anything, except time...
best regards
keld
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