From: Simon Strandgaard <neoneye@...>
Date: 2004-02-12T22:39:57+09:00
Subject: Re: [Bug?] Stack overflow in regexp matcher

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 22:16:55 +0900, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:

> I've been using the wonderful new RedCloth release from why the lucky 
> stiff for a while, but feeding it  large inputs causes a meltdown in 
> Ruby's regexp'er. I've narrowed the problem down to:
> 
> irb(main):001:0> IO.readlines("large_paragraph.txt").join("\n") =~ 
> /(.+)\n(?![#*\s|])/
> RegexpError: Stack overflow in regexp matcher: /(.+)\n(?![#*\s|])/
>          from (irb):1
> 

I have never seen Ruby's regexp engine output the regexp-string.
However yesterday I tried Oniguruma, and it outputs the regexp-string.

Have you compiled Oniguruma ?

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Simon Strandgaard