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Performance of Regular Expressions
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tsuberim
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Isn't it O(n) where n is the length of the string to match? Because you can compile any regex to a DFA and run it over the string.
mrzasa
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Not sure what you mean. For detailed complexity analysis, please read this excellent post by Russ Cox:
https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
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