iterating over lines in a file

[Cliff Crawford]

* nobody <no at bo.dy> menulis:
| 
| > Also, in your example you'd probably want to use search() rather than
| > match(), which only succeeds if the regexp matches the beginning of the
| > string (i.e. it acts as if there is an implicit '^' at the beginning of
| > the regexp).
| 
| hm. any difference in performance, or can i just as well make the caret
| explicit and standardize myself on match?

Er, what I meant was that match() only succeeds if the regexp matches
the beginning of the string, while search() will succeed if the regexp
matches anywhere in the string.  I doubt there's any difference in
performance.


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