In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a regular expression that is approximately 100k bytes. (It is > basically a list of all known norwegian postal numbers and the > corresponding place with | in between. I know this is not the intended > use for regular expressions, but it should nonetheless work. > > the pattern is > ur'(N-|NO-)?(5259 HJELLESTAD|4026 STAVANGER|4027 STAVANGER........|8305 > SVOLVÆR)' > > The error message I get is: > RuntimeError: internal error in regular expression engine
I don't know of any stated maximum length, but I'm not at all surprised this causes the regex compiler to blow up. This is clearly a case of regex being the wrong tool for the job. I'm guessing a dictionary, with the numeric codes as keys and the city names as values (or perhaps the other way around) is what you want.
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