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  • .*? The reason to any slow regex!

    Hi guys, We all have been there, we have some text we need to allocate using a regex, and we cannot really define what can be between 2 sub matches, so we simply uses the easiest solution .*?. You will probebly wont notice the problem, until the day when the regex cannot find what we are looking for, and then it's takes hours to execute. ...
    Posted to Regex Jedi (Weblog) by sirpadk on February 24, 2007