Re: In search of an efficient query abstractor

in reply to In search of an efficient query abstractor

The regexes do a lot of backtracking and stuff.

Which one? I don't see anywhere that backtracking could occur. Everything there's a choice, only one path can possibly match.

   $query =~ s{
              (?<![\w.+-])
              [+-]?
              (?:
                \d+
                (?:[.]\d*)?
                |[.]\d+
              )
              (?:e[+-]?\d+)?
              \b
             }
             {N}gx;                             # Float/real into N
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The trailing \b is buggy.

"12345 "  -> "N "
"12345. " -> "N. "
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It matched "12345." until the "\b" was reached, then it backtracked to release the "." from the match. Oops, I guess there is backtracking, but only because of the bug.

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