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Update code example to match its description in text
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jlamberg committed Nov 12, 2011
commit a7511aeb0b14b7d469090fc6a29323f4e0472191
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Expand Up @@ -533,8 +533,8 @@ performance.
Consider a string of 25 <i>a</i>s, a <i>d</i>, 4 <i>a</i>s, and a
<i>c</i>.

s = 'a' * 25 + 'd' 'a' * 4 + 'c'
#=> "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadadadadac"
s = 'a' * 25 + 'd' + 'a' * 4 + 'c'
#=> "aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaadaaaac"

The following patterns match instantly as you would expect:

Expand All @@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ The following patterns match instantly as you would expect:

However, the following pattern takes appreciably longer:

/(b|a+)*c/ =~ s #=> 32
/(b|a+)*c/ =~ s #=> 26

This happens because an atom in the regexp is quantified by both an
immediate <tt>+</tt> and an enclosing <tt>*</tt> with nothing to
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