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04/28/2012

08:47 AM Ruby 1.8 Bug #6366: Regex freezes Ruby

Right, but you could detect bad patterns in the regex like the double repetition. How does Ruby 1.9 NOT freeze? vertis (Luke Chadwick)

04/27/2012

12:36 PM Ruby 1.8 Bug #6366: Regex freezes Ruby

Sure, that works. You're absolutely correct about my regex error.
However, I still think it's a bug. The behaviour ... vertis (Luke Chadwick)

04/26/2012

07:27 PM Ruby 1.8 Bug #6366 (Rejected): Regex freezes Ruby

I stumbled across a weird error on Ruby 1.8.7p352, where String.match locks up:
"#^(?:export)?\s*(\w+)=(.*)".match... vertis (Luke Chadwick)