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Subject: RE: _man - fast searching for glob patterns
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>   firstmatchingpage=$allpages[(r)$our-search-pattern]

Thank you. This is a bit faster

rep[$#rep+1]=(${(M)allpages:#${~approx}$PREFIX${~star}$SUFFIX})

it gets all matching elements and assigns them to result. The speed is
acceptable (I suppose, globbing would take the same time).

BTW I wonder, if

array[$#array+1]=(...)

is much better than

array=($array ...)

??

cheers

/andrej