Re^2: Is there a hard limit on + in a regex?

Alright, that sucks but I guess there's no changing it. So why did my command-line attempt to verify this fail?

-sam

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Re^3: Is there a hard limit on + in a regex? by diotalevi (Canon) on Jul 09, 2004 at 19:38 UTC
It depends which of the nodes CURLYX, WHILEM, CURLYM, CURLYN, CURLY, STAR, PLUS were used by the regular expression compiler. This is a measure of how "naughty" you expression is so using anything besides (?: exact string )+ is edging into a realm where + has a limit.	[reply]