Quote: Both activities offer similar rewards. Lots of things have similar rewards. ;) Latest Articles: A Lightweight Thread Safe In-Memory Keyed Generic Cache Collection Service A Dynamic Where Implementation for Entity Framework

Clipper was really great... I wrote a windowing library in it years ago (DOS type Windows) that I used for contract jobs. I eventually had to move to Clarion though as it was faster to develop in.

Kent Sharkey wrote: Oh, sorry. That's knitting. (in before many people correct me) Still, it was a great pun! Latest Article: Create a Digital Ocean Droplet for .NET Core Web API with a real SSL Certificate on a Domain

Sometimes things at CP are kinda hinky. Then SO usually leaves less stones unturned: .net - In Regex, what is the difference between (?!^)\G and \G(?!^)? - Stack Overflow[^] Stones unturned

Check with the Apache httpd wiki[^], and if you can't find it there, hit the users mailing list[^] Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012

With var, we can write the code easier, but reading it in some cases is open to interpretation. It should not be necessary to look at a function call to see what it returns to glean the type returned that goes into the variable typed as 'var'.

Alright, well unless your users are connected to your servers via a SAN speeding up your regex isn't going to even touch the part of your app that should be taking the longest to execute (downloading the data to the client, no?) Find out for sure what takes the time. Optimize there. I doubt it has anything to do with regex. You will get up to a 3x speed improvement over a straight NFA regex search through text. But just the searching the text part itself. That's probably not where your time is being spent, just from what you are telling me. Of course, I don't *know* any of this. This is me spitballing based on one comment. However, even if I were in your shoes, I'd profile, and find out during a typical run, what percentage of the total time it takes to execute is being used doing what? From there, I'd attack the things that take the largest percentage. If the regex is anywhere even near the top of that list, I'll eat my hat. Real programmers use butterflies

Kent Sharkey wrote: and I needed to vent. "Vent" - that's a great name for a new programming language! The adVent of a new programming paradigm where we reinVent the old, break the conVention, and give you something new to Vent about, but it will be an adVenture! Venture forth, and eVentually we'll be in the list of 20 top languages! Latest Articles: DivWindow: Size, drag, minimize, and maximize floating windows with layout persistence

A boss of mine actually said that to me once.

Visual Basic is alive and well inside Excel.

It's so crufty it could organise a dog show.

Kent Sharkey wrote: Or maybe whitespace in this case. I think enclosing brackets are better {} :rolleyes: :-D :laugh: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.

Did someone forget to pay the fee? :rolleyes: M.D.V. ;) If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about? Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.