Beginner's performance problem

[Mark Charsley]

In article <a95154$ans$0 at 216.39.172.122>, bokr at oz.net (Bengt Richter) 
wrote:

> >Aha! I'd put off reading up on the regular expression stuff until 
> later as 
> >I thought it just did searches, as opposed to also doing 
> in-place 
> >replaces. 

> Best reread Alex's post carefully, until you understand the difference 
> from the above ;-)

Sorry s/in-place replaces/replaces within the whole string at once/

Of course if I misunderstood something else, let me know...

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