[erlang-questions] improving the performance of regexp(regular expressions)

[Darren New]

David Mitchell wrote:
> Pre-R12B-3, I had a lot of success using pattern matches in situations
> where my initial reaction was to use regex.  

The place where a regex really shines is when it's generated at runtime. 
A regex literal can be replaced by code. A regex read from a 
configuration file is much harder to replace with code (altho less so in 
Erlang than some other languages). A regex read from the keyboard is 
almost impossible to replace with code.

Sort of like XML - if you don't have CDATA that makes sense when you 
strip out all the <tags>, chances are you're using the wrong tool.

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