On Feb 14, 2014, at 1:04 PM, Adam Katz <antis...@khopis.com> wrote: > Noooooo, don't do that. (?:\s*\w+)+ is a ReDoS bomb (and you have it ten > times!) which will destroy your
Whoops, you're very right. Removing the + after the \w (that is, turning it to (?:\s*\w)+ ) should match the same things but without this exponential branching... I think. --- Amir
