Re: [MLUG] String manipulation in C

["Mark Rages" <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On 7/1/07, Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED> wrote:
> What he said. Connecting with another recent thread (on the D
> programming language), this is the kind of thing that C does
> exceptionally well. It should be noted, however, that there is a
> related cost for some kinds of optimizations, because with pointer
> arithmetic, it becomes difficult or even impossible to prove things
> about the variables involved.
>
> But all that said...unless your strings are absolutely huge, this
> would seem to be the kind of thing that Perl could do even better than
> C (at least the code would be shorter).

Yes, I was going to suggest a different language.  And it doesn't seem
like a regular expression is needed.

Anyway, here is the ultimate blog post on the subject:

http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/archives/2006/05/30/old-age-and-treachery/

Regards,
Mark
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