regex and performance

[Richard Sharpe]

Hi,

I have done some testing with clitar with regex and mask_match.

Boy, is regexec slow :-(

mask_match is much faster, but you cannot do the following with mask_match:

   smbclient \\\\serv\service -TcrX fred.tar ".*.(obj|lis)" to exclude all 
   .obj and .lis files ...

I have found syntax differences as well, where Linux will accept
"*.(obj|lis)" while Digital UNIX wants ".*.(obj|lis)"




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