RE: regex confusion

2003-02-18 Thread david
Beau E. Cox wrote: >> Reading over Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions", and he gives a >> problem on pp. 143-144 where a poorly formed expression takes >> might-as-well-be-forever to finish. >> >> I can't replicate the problem. >> >> I'm using 5.8. Have they upgraded that problem away? >> I

RE: regex confusion

2003-02-14 Thread Beau E. Cox
Hi - > -Original Message- > From: Paul [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, February 14, 2003 1:14 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: regex confusion > > > > Reading over Friedl's "Mastering Regular Expressions", and he gives a > problem on pp. 143-144 where a poorly formed exp