On Feb 13, 5:14 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Isn't the finite state machine "regular expression 'object'" really
> large?

There's no finite state machine involved here, since this isn't a
regular expression in the strictest sense of the term---it doesn't
translate to a finite state machine, since backreferences are
involved.

Mark
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