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How to interrupt regular expression matching?
mishuk27
,
This is a complete guess but perhaps you are using perl 5.8 or above with safe signals enabled (20 - 30 minutes instead of instantly). If so, read up on
perl signals
and
turn off safe-signals
to see if that changes anything.
Cheers -
L~R
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