 | | Re: posting weirdness —Todd Lehman
| | | | (...) OK, please try again now! (...) Whew! Thank you so much for finding and reporting this! I'm not sure yet[1] if this was a stupidly written regex on my part or bona fide bug in perl's[2] regex engine. Either way, the post you submitted caused (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | | | | | | Re: posting weirdness —Dan Boger
| | | | | (...) yah, that's what it looks like to me. Since it would match any newline, and start adding up the whitespace until it found the beginning of a new paragraph. it'll backtrack to the next blank line, try again, and fail once more.... if you have (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | | | | | | | | | | Re: posting weirdness —Todd Lehman
| | | | | (...) It's actually infinitely worse than that. The NFA it produced actually had exponential performance, so it would try to do it 2^80 (2 raised to the 80th power) times, which would take about 302,200,000,000,000,000 seconds or about ten thousand (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
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