In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bryan Olson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Roy Smith wrote: > > [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. > > Does no one care about an internal error in the regular expression > engine? I think the most that could be said here is that it should probably produce a better error message.
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