in reply to How to interrupt regular expression matching?

If the regex comes from possible hostile sources you could try to fork, use BSD::Resource to limit the CPU time for the child, and match it only then. (That's what my evalbot in #perl6 does).

As said before, if you have control over the regex, fix the regex instead.

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Re^2: How to interrupt regular expression matching?
by mishuk27 (Initiate) on May 26, 2008 at 22:16 UTC
    why alarm does not work?
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      why alarm does not work?

      It depends on how you are (mis)using it. Show us some code, and maybe we can figure out what you are really asking.

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