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Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?
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Miles Bader |
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Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search? |
Date: |
Thu, 17 Jul 2008 21:17:49 +0900 |
"Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden> writes:
> looking-at does not have a BOUND parameter, but re-search-forward
> have. This makes re-search-forward a bit more flexible.
>
> I am looking at some code where I would have use for that flexibility,
> but I wonder if there is any drawback with replacing looking-at with
> re-search-forward (with an achored pattern).
>
> Is there any? Performance?
If you want to reject matches that extend past some point, just do
something like:
(and (looking-at REGEXP) (<= (match-end 0) BOUND))
-Miles
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- What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?, Lennart Borgman (gmail), 2008/07/17
- Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?,
Miles Bader <=
- Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?, Lennart Borgman, 2008/07/17
- Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?, Miles Bader, 2008/07/17
- Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?, Lennart Borgman, 2008/07/17
- Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?, Miles Bader, 2008/07/17
- Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?, Lennart Borgman, 2008/07/17
Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?, David Kastrup, 2008/07/17