Dan,
That is a great work around.
God bless you!
--Jacek
Dan Lipofsky wrote:
> > I was playing with official substituteExamle.java code.
> > I need to get everything between body tags, so expression I use is:
> >
> > <BODY\\s*(.*[\n])+?\\s*<\\/BODY>
> >
> > It works great as long as length of the string between body
> > tags is less
> >
> > than 300 characters or so.
> > As soon as it's longer than that I get java exception. It looks like
> > infinite loop.
> >
> > Is that a well known BUG or my expression is wrong (then why would it
> > work with short strings)?
>
> Sounds like a bug - but your expression has some problems as well,
> and a better expression might work around the bug. Try this:
> <BODY[^>]*>\\s*(.+?)\\s*</BODY>
> compile it with Perl5Compiler.SINGLELINE_MASK
> The singleline mask will allow '.' to match '\n', which it normally
> wouldn't.
> - Dan
