Re: regex seg fault on long string

[Dave Gray]

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004 17:19:00 -0500, Dave Gray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Is there a more compatible way to check my overly-long string?
> 
> How about:
> 
> die "syntax error\n" if $msgs =~ /[^\d,]/;

Oh, I missed a requirement... after the above code:

while ($msgs =~ /(\d+)/g) {
  die "syntax error\n" if $1 > 1000000;
}

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