This regex timeout issue, in a slightly different context, is a problem I am having as well. I appreciate the light being shed by all the sages, even though my humble novice mind is still struggling in the swamp of Confusion.

My situation is that:

1) I didn't really understand BUU's last post.

2) I am intimidated by regex::parser

3) I am looking for a general solution for the issue of what to do when sometimes a program takes too long for whatever reason and you need to give up and forget it.

Rather than slink away into the shadows, I followed up BUU's breadcrumbs with google searches

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=perl+%22timeout+sub%22&btnG=Google-Suche&meta=

and

http://www.google.de/search?hl=de&q=perl+%22unreliable+program%22&btnG=Suche&meta=

which brought me back to perlmonks:

http://perlmonks.thepen.com/220132.html

"Using Expect.PM to manage an unreliable program."

Is this a corridor that we novices who wish to manage regex timeout problems would do well to explore... or will it only confuse us more?

Humbly,

Thomas.

In reply to Could "expect.pm for managing unreliable programs" help here? by tphyahoo
in thread Test RegEx Validity by aplonis

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