reReplace or replace that is the question

Well i had to play, these sort of things always have get my interests going. This starts in a post atalt.comp.lang.coldfusionwhere Drew asked - "I'm trying to take this value 0.85 and turn it into 85, or 1.35 and turn that into 135."

There were a few answers but two revolved around using reReplace() & replace(), and it was these which prompted me to see which would be best for the job.Well the results we quite good, though i also tested on CF4.52 - now this was amazing. Ok, heres test 1:











#loopTime#

and heres test 2













#loopTime#

	Test 1			Test 2
	CF4.5	CFMX		CF4.5	CFMX
1.	5939	2223		4627	190
2.	5887	2163		4737	200
3.	5908	2153		4817	191

First thing, WOW how did we work with CF4.5.
Anyway as you can see that by not using the regex engine the CFMX the times drop by roughly 100%.