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Still, when you have a well-defined input and you can treat data as a flat string (no hierarchy), PCRE is probably the best choice you have - and certainly the

Still, when you have a well-defined input and you can treat data as a flat string (no hierarchy), PCRE is probably the best choice you have - and certainly the fastest one.

lmm 5y ago
True regular expressions (that get compiled to DFAs) are faster if you don't need the funky PCRE features, and you usually don't.
- ivanhoe 5y ago
  Is there any popular language out there that implements DFA or Thompson NFA regexps (beside awk)?