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Author mrabarnett
Recipients ceridwen, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2015-02-27.21:31:54
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The problem is with the "(\w+\s*)+". \s* can match an empty string, so when matching a word it's like "(\w+)+".

If you have n letters, there are 2**n ways it could match, and if what follows never matches, it'll try all of them.

It _will_ finish, eventually...
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