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Author serhiy.storchaka
Recipients Robert Lujo, ezio.melotti, gdr@garethrees.org, mrabarnett, serhiy.storchaka
Date 2017-04-04.08:09:37
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This is a well known issue called catastrophic backtracking. It can't be solved with the current implementation of the regular expression engine. The best you can rewrite your regular expression. Even replacing "(.|\s)" with just "." can help.
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Date User Action Args
2017-04-04 08:09:37serhiy.storchakasetrecipients: + serhiy.storchaka, ezio.melotti, mrabarnett, gdr@garethrees.org, Robert Lujo
2017-04-04 08:09:37serhiy.storchakasetmessageid: <1491293377.56.0.247906000313.issue29977@psf.upfronthosting.co.za>
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