Re: String searching peformance

On Wednesday 26 February 2003 16:49, {R}ichard Ashton wrote: > Do you think that: > > if (preg_match($re, $posting, $hits)) would slow it down at all. The > $buzzwords will be kept in a file to be loaded before each run, every 5 > minutes. I could therefore keep a count of which words hit most > frequently and move them to the top of the list. No idea whether this would be faster (it's certainly easier to code): explode() text into an array place your banned words into an array array_intersect() to find words common in both Do your own benchmarking! -- Jason Wong -> Gremlins Associates -> www.gremlins.biz Open Source Software Systems Integrators * Web Design & Hosting * Internet & Intranet Applications Development * ------------------------------------------ Search the list archives before you post http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=php-general ------------------------------------------ /* Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? -- Steven Wright */