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Re: [bug-gawk] Counting number of matches in record/string


From: Jarno Suni
Subject: Re: [bug-gawk] Counting number of matches in record/string
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 2015 20:04:27 +0300

On Fri, 04 Sep 2015 16:14:10 +0300
Aharon Robbins <address@hidden> wrote:

> > I which gsub(regex,"&",[string]) was optimized to count matches, if
>       ^^^^^ You mean "wish"
yes and [,string]
> > not done already. Or is there a better way to count matches in
> > record/string?
> 
> I don't think I want to add code for that special case.

Could you point me to the right part of code, so that I can do some
experimenting?

> Nonetheless, I suspect that if you time such a thing with LC_ALL=C
> set in the environment, it will run somewhat faster than in a
> Unicode locale.

I did not notice any advance of that or of using -b option. 

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Jarno Ilari Suni - http://www.iki.fi/8/



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