From: Daniel Brockman <daniel@...>
Date: 2005-07-23T02:51:48+09:00
Subject: Re: ruby script hangs on regex match

Hi Adrian,

> I have a regex infinte loop kind of problem. I use ruby
> 1.8.2.  The regular expression I used was:
>
> [tT]he\s+(([\w\d\_]+(?:[a-zA-Z][\dA-Z]|[\dA-Z][a-zA-Z])
> [\w\d\_]*((\s*(\,|and|or)\s*)*[\w\d\_]+(?:[a-zA-Z][\dA-Z]
> |[\dA-Z][a-zA-Z])[\w\d\_]*)*))\s+((\w+\s+){0,3}\s*
> (proteins|genes|protein|gene))

I just wanted to point out that if you add the /x flag to
the regexp, you can insert whitespace and comments at will.
That can sometimes make the expression pseudo-readable.

-- 
Daniel Brockman <daniel@brockman.se>

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