From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2006-12-27T22:26:15+09:00
Subject: Re: reg exp comparison hanging irb

On 12/27/06, Bill Kelly <billk@cts.com> wrote:
> From: "Simon Strandgaard" <neoneye@gmail.com>
> >
> > the GNU regexp engine has a few oddities..
> > here is another example that triggers an endless loop.
> >
> > r='<META http-equiv="Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">'
> > r.scan /<(?:[^">]+|"[^"]*")+>/
>
> To clarify, it's probably not an endless loop, just may or
> may not finish in our lifetimes.  :)

Thanks for the clarification. I must have forgotten
a lot about regexp too..  iirc stress can cause amnesia.

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