Re: Eudora executes (Java) URL

[jhardin () wolfenet com (John D. Hardin)]

On Mon, 10 Aug 1998, High Tide wrote:

> This RE does exit, it's just exponental.
>
> I would've sent this back to bugtraq, but I haven't read far enough to
> know how to fix the regex.

Yeah. The backtracking feature was pointed out to me, along with the fact
that you can turn it off in Perl 5.005 but not in 5.004.

I played around with it a bit, discovered that I had the problem too but
wasn't seeing it due to the carefully-selected test data I was using, and
changed the RE to a slightly less elegant form which does exit quickly.

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