From: Louis J Scoras <louis.j.scoras@...>
Date: 2006-11-13T00:27:43+09:00
Subject: Re: regular expression too big

This doesn't really help with the actual question of getting past
regex size limits, but are you sure that regexen are correct solution
to this problem?  Unless I'm mistaken, the above match is going to be
horribly, painfully slow; the issue you're running into is probably an
indication that you might want to look elsewhere.

I don't want to make any silly claims without doing any benchmarking
on your data, but I would imagine that even doing an efficient search
on a sorted array of your words would give you better performance than
the regex search.  You can move up from there into hashes or other
data structures for this sort of thing.


-- 
Lou