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Re: slow regular expressionsby Nevtlathiel (Friar) |
on Aug 08, 2006 at 09:17 UTC ( [id://566099]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
tilly wrote a very good article about how you can have this type of regex terminate before the heat death of the universe by using backtracking and how it results in a relative slow down of other regular expressions: Benchmarks aren't everything
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