Re: What is the difference between looking-at and an anchored search?

[Miles Bader]

"Lennart Borgman" <address@hidden> writes:
>> If you want to reject matches that extend past some point, just do
>> something like:
>>
>>   (and (looking-at REGEXP) (<= (match-end 0) BOUND))
>
> Thanks Miles,
>
> Yes, that is one possibility. But then perhaps I would assume that
> re-search-forward better might optimize that search since it can (in theory)
> cut off the searching at BOUND. In the case I am looking at performance is
> important.

Why don't you time it?

-Miles

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