Difference b/w "REGEXP" or "STRING MATCH"

[awyeah]

Hello,

Well I have some scripts like a caps kicker, drone nick
kicker, control codes kicker, and etc etc. protection
scripts for my bot.

Both 'regexp' and 'string match' functions can be used
in these scripts to match certain characters in nicks,
and texts.

I was wondering which is a faster way, I mean which
command excutes a faster output "regexp" or "string match"

This faster output que, could be efficient to kick-ban people
with a faster ammount of time with minimal lag.

'regexp' i know is a complex matching sequence, while
string match is just the basic one.

Which will have a faster output? and which would have
an efficient, accurate (better) output?

[strikelight]

Sounds like you already know the answers to your questions...

string match is ofcourse faster, but regexp provides complex pattern matching..

as for efficiency, it just matters what you want to do... if it can be done with string match, then that is the efficient method... otherwise the efficient method defaults to regexp (or even scan in some cases)..

Short answer... use string match when possible..