Rafael, i'm sorry, the bad regexp is not displaying properly, something is obviously wrong with my formatting. Gergo reproduced it same as i have it. Urabe, do you know how Perl does that? Also, i'll be grateful for the link to regex...mxposed (Nikolay Markov)
Here is an extracted problem i ran into recently: ~~~ $ cat test.rb str = ('a' * ARGV[0].to_i) + '?' re = /(\w*)*$/ re.match(str) ~~~ On few chars match returns quite fast, but here's what happens on 14 'a'-s and up: ~~~ $ t...mxposed (Nikolay Markov)
mxposed (Nikolay Markov)03:59 PM Ruby Bug #9694: Bad regexp hangs ruby