Bryan Olson 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? > > Not one that requires parsing a 100 kilobyte re that should be replaced by something more sensible, no.
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