Re: [Regexp] Very slow patter matching

[Ekkehard Goerlach]

Loty <address@hidden> writes:

> For some reason it takes forever to match - try it in the Test Applet.
> No, it's not hanging - it will come back in 5-6 minutes with correct matches.
>  
> Here is my pattern  - <VAR>\s+\w+\s+\w+[\\"\s*\w*\\"]*[\s+default\s+\w+]*;
>  
> and here is some text I'm trying to match:
>  
> <VAR> int interval1 "Fast Time Span" default 12;
> <VAR> int interval2 "Slow Time Span" default 26;
> <VAR> int interval3 "Signal Time Span" default 9;
> <VAR> int series "Series" default 1;

Looking at your example isn't it the following you are trying to
match:

<VAR>\s+\w+\s+\w+\s+("[\s\w]+")+\s+(default[\s\d]+)+

Ekkehard

PS: I checked it only using perl

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