Re: strange regexp behavior

[G..]

Thomas Weber-8 wrote:
> 
> The error code returned by PCRE is PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT.
> 
> The problem happens also with the pcretest program:
> 
> =======================================================================
>   $ pcretest 
>   PCRE version 7.6 2008-01-28
> 
>     re> '(\s*-*\d+[.]*\d*\s*)+\n'
>     data>
> '\t4\n0000\t-0.00\t-0.0000\t4\t-0.00\t-0.0000\t4\n0000\t-0.00\t-0.0000\t0\t-0.00\t-'
>     Error -8
> =======================================================================
> 

Just for completeness: Philip Hazel (PCRE) suggested to replace, at least in
this particular case, the function pcre_exec with pcre_dfa_exec, which in
fact makes the problem disappear.

G.

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