From: Joseph McDonald <joe@...>
Date: 2002-09-18T09:49:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expression bug, or feature?


SR> This hangs on at least Ruby 1.6.5 and 1.6.7 -- one of those 100% CPU,
SR> never return hangs.

not really "hang" but it does take a while to run.  mine eventually
came back (sorry I didn't time it, but my guess is 30 minutes):

irb(main):025:0> src='<hosted class="com.firsthop.mg.gui.Servlet" product="TestSuite"
irb(main):026:0' classpath'
"<hosted class=\"com.firsthop.mg.gui.Servlet\" product=\"TestSuite\"\nclasspath"
irb(main):027:0> src =~ /^<((?:[\w:][-\w\d.]*:)?[\w:][-\w\d.]*)\s*((((["']).*?\5)|[^\/'">]*)*?)(\/)?>/mu
nil
irb(main):028:0>

-joe