Hi, I'm having a problem with a scheduled task that chokes my server. Its role is to analyse bounced messages. I have been able to identify where it blocks, when analysing a line like this one with the regex below: "Message-id: <26823262.22036.1411993378646.JavaMail.NS4007563$@127.0.0.1>" <CFSET regEx = "[A-Za-z0-9_](\.?[A-Za-z0-9_\-]+)*@[A-Za-z0-9_\-\.]+(\.[A-Za-z]{2,6})"> The server seems to get stuck in an infinite loop. Actually, the problem is that the function REfind takes much too long.
I narrowed the problem to the following code which shows that the time taken grows exponentially with the number of characters and is anyway abnormaly long : <CFSET line="00000000000000$@"> <CFSET regEx = "([A-Z0-9]+)*@"> <CFLOOP INDEX="n" FROM="1" TO="10"> <CFSET line = "0" & line> <CFSET deb=getTickCount()> <CFSET result = REFindNocase (regEx, line)> <CFSET time = (getTickCount()-deb)/1000> <CFOUTPUT> line = (#len(line)# char. = #line# result = #result# in #time# sec.<BR></CFOUTPUT> </CFLOOP> And the result is: line = (17 char. = 000000000000000$@ result = 17 in 0.055 sec. line = (18 char. = 0000000000000000$@ result = 18 in 0.028 sec. line = (19 char. = 00000000000000000$@ result = 19 in 0.063 sec. line = (20 char. = 000000000000000000$@ result = 20 in 0.113 sec. line = (21 char. = 0000000000000000000$@ result = 21 in 0.224 sec. line = (22 char. = 00000000000000000000$@ result = 22 in 0.447 sec. line = (23 char. = 000000000000000000000$@ result = 23 in 0.902 sec. line = (24 char. = 0000000000000000000000$@ result = 24 in 1.787 sec. line = (25 char. = 00000000000000000000000$@ result = 25 in 3.574 sec. line = (26 char. = 000000000000000000000000$@ result = 26 in 7.192 sec. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359388 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm