I understand that I have given you very little to go on. I'm thinking that it's neither a network problem or a server problem because it always hangs on the same page. Even when I change the order in which I retrieve the pages, it still hangs on the same page. So, it seems like the problem is page-specific.

I also have a line immediately following my {Do something} block that let's me know that I've exited the match. On the pages where my code hangs, it never exits the {Do something} block.

On the time to match part, the match happens fairly quickly whether or not there are zero matches, one match, or multiple matches.

One thing I should probably have mentioned, but neglected to, is that I've been running this code for a while now (it runs automatically once a day). Whoever runs the website that I'm pulling from made some minor changes to the HTML, so I needed to go back and change my matching pattern. But, like I said, it matches fine on some web pages, but then hangs on others.

In reply to Re^2: Regex infinite loop? by Ninth Prince
in thread Regex infinite loop? by Ninth Prince

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