Hello, On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 04:24:02PM +0000, MRAB wrote: > Interestingly, that webpage says that: > > ("a" x 100000) =~ /^(ab?)*$/ > > caused Perl to segfault. I tried it and it didn't segfault, but it > didn't match either
It doesn't segfault but produces a warning with -w: xr...@xrgtn-q40:~$ perl -wse 'print(("a" x 100000) =~ /^(ab?)*$/)' Complex regular subexpression recursion limit (32766) exceeded at -e line 1. xr...@xrgtn-q40:~$ -- With best regards, xrgtn -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list