On 11/12/06, Peter Schrammel <peter.schrammel / gmx.de> wrote: > got problem with big regexes: > I have a regex of about 70000+ words concated with '|' that I'd like to > match as a regex. /bla|blub|foo|bar|.....(70000)/ if you have many words to check for then consider using a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_filter -- Simon Strandgaard