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Re: Stack overflow in regexp matcher


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Subject: Re: Stack overflow in regexp matcher
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:13:51 +0100
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Barry Margolin wrote:
The problem is that + is greedy, so this has to scan the entire line
looking for the last "]", then see if there's an "=" somewhere later.
If it can't find an "=" it has to back up to the previous "]" and search
again, and so on.  If there are lots of "]" characters, this has to save
the state of each of them in the matching stack.

That's what I first suspected too.  But (a) the same thing happens with

    "^< \\([^]]+].+=|\\)"

which constrains the search to find only the first "]", and (b) there's only one "]" in that line -- within the first 45 characters -- as well as only a single "=|".

Any other thoughts?

djc


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