regular expressions performance

[yftah1989]

I'm creating a new program. The ONLY thing which is important for me is the running time of the program. Should I use a regular expressions, or maybe should I write my own search code?

[Lost User]

Stop spamming the forums. The answer is the same everywhere: the running time of the program will be much too long due to the repeated use of the same query expression.

It's time for a new signature.

[CitrusTech]

If performance is truely the only thing which is important than write your own code. But really is that all that matters? I think your time is worth a lot more than that. Why not use the regexp tools you have and try it out. My betting is that it will be good enough. But who knows without anything else to go on?

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