In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0107282304050.28213-100000@crusoe.crusoe.net>, Jeff 'japhy/Marillion' Pinyan <jeffp@crusoe.net> writes: > This leads me to my optimization proposal: unless (??{ ... }) interferes, > any regex with a $ or \Z or \z end-of-string anchor should be able to fail > immediately upon inspection of the end of the string. don't forget that the m modifier also interferes for $Thread Previous | Thread Next