From: Daniel Fac <ddshore@...>
Date: 2008-11-02T10:20:38+09:00
Subject: Re: problems with regular expressions and parenthesis

Daniel Fac wrote:
> hi,
> i'm having some trouble with regular expressions in ruby.
> If I have a regular expression like this:
> ^([\x20-\x7E]|\w){1,40}$, it will crash ruby if there are more than
> forty characters in it.  I don't understand what is wrong with this
> expression, if my expression is changed to
> ^([\A-Za-z]|\w){1,40}$ it works perfectly well
> so does this one: ^([\x20-\x7E]|\w){1,40}$
> am I missing something obvious?

Sorry, copied it wrong:
 /^([A-Za-z]|\w|\s){1,40}$/
Could it have something to do with some parts of it overlapping?
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