Regular expression to search for Gadaffi [closed]
Easy… (Qadaffi|Khadafy|Qadafi|…)… it’s self-documented, maintainable, and assuming your regexp engine actually compiles regular expressions (rather than interpreting them), it will compile to the same DFA that a more obfuscated solution would. Writing compact regular expressions is like using short variable names to speed up a program. It only helps if your compiler is brain-dead.