Pattern matching vs Regular expression

Ashley Thomas athomas at unity.ncsu.edu
Thu May 23 17:00:50 PDT 2002


hi,

Usage of Regular expression for pattern matching is anytime better than
using simple string matching in the sense that
- it gives more power
- it can reduce the number of signatures needed.

Apart from that speed-wise is reg-exp matching still much faster than
simple sring matching like Bayer-moore or similar algos ??

any pointers or references will be great.

thanks a lot
ashley




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