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

[Matthew D. Swank]

On Mon, 29 Sep 2008 10:37:00 -0700
Chris Dean <ctdean at sokitomi.com> wrote:

> 
> "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.
> 
Coercing the slurped file to a simple string makes things work
swimmingly.

Thanks,

Matt

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