Regular expression guaranteed to fail

[Hallvard B Furuseth]

Eric Brunel wrote:
>Hallvard B Furuseth wrote:
>> Anyway, I note that r'x\A' beats all the other regexps suggested so far
>> with a factor of 20 when searching 's'*10000.
> 
> And when searching 'x'*10000? Since there is an 'x' in the re, it may change
> things a lot...

Heh.  You are right: That's about almost as slow as the others.  A bit
slower than \Zx and \Ax\A, but still faster than the other alternatives.

-- 
Hallvard