At a guess, it's because you're grabbing (potentially) the whole string. If you are using MX+ you should use a non-greedy match. I'd combine the two char classes into one, which will allow you to drop all the parens (which are needlessly creating backreferences).
You'll end up with something like \[[[:print:][:space:]]*?\] for your regex. For a deeper discussion, feel free to bring it up on http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=threads&forumid=21 The HoF RegEx list. HTH. -- Ben Doom Programmer & General Lackey Moonbow Software, Inc : -----Original Message----- : From: Brook Davies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] : Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2003 3:03 PM : To: CF-Talk : Subject: Quick Reg Ex Question : : : <cfset z=REfindnocase("(\[)([[:print:][:space:]])*(\])",str,startpos)> : : Using CF4.5 this regex worked fine on all lengths of strings. Moving to : CFMX this generated the infamous "null null" errors until the : string being : parsed was shortened to 12,500 chars. After the redsky update, this code : again started to bug out and the length of the string being parsed had to : be shortened again to 8300 characters. With 6.1 I get an error that says : "java.lang.StackOverflowError" and nothing more, no stack trace. : : Is this a problem with my regex? : : What the regex does, is find any value inside square brackets like [First : Name] or [First : Name]. : : Maybe there is some way to improve the regex so these errors do not keep : happening. : : Brook : : : ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=t:4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm?link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4 Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
