[cl-ppcre-devel] Matching on very long strings.

[Chris Dean]

"Matthew D. Swank" <akopa.gmane.poster at gmail.com> writes:
> One thing I did notice is that I read the file into an adjustable
> vector, and that is the string I pass to the scanners.  I suppose ppcre
> has to coerce that every time a scanner runs?

Yes, scan needs a simple-string.  From the SCAN docs:

  target-string will be coerced to a simple string if it isn't one
  already.

Cheers,
Chris Dean