On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:09 PM, Stephen J. Butler <stephen.but...@gmail.com > wrote: > > If you read the ICU docs on regular expressions you'll see that it sets an > 8MB limit on head size when evaluating. My guess is that you've run into > this and NSRegularExpression misses a return code somewhere. >
I would have thought 50 000 characters is not that much. But then again, I don't really know how ICU works... Reading the ICU docs further, there it says: Because ICU does not use program recursion to maintain its backtracking > state, stack usage during matching operations is minimal, and does not > increase with complex patterns or large amounts of backtracking state. > But your pattern is really suboptimal for what you're trying to accomplish. > It's really a reduced test case. _______________________________________________ Cocoa-dev mailing list (Cocoa-dev@lists.apple.com) Please do not post admin requests or moderator comments to the list. Contact the moderators at cocoa-dev-admins(at)lists.apple.com Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: https://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/cocoa-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to arch...@mail-archive.com
