Re: [cl-ppcre-devel] report a bug

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 25, 2009 at 4:31 AM, Xiangjun Wunetawater@gmail.com wrote:

"(\w+)*\@\w+"

That's the type of regular expression that typically leads to a combinatorial explosion in regex engines unless they use specific "tricks" to deal with this. Recent versions of Perl are pretty clever in this regard (they look for "floating" substrings) while CL-PPCRE isn't, but - frankly - I don't really see the point of this. I think this is mainly so that the regex engine looks good in benchmarks. I definitely wouldn't call this a bug.

The question is - what do you want to achieve with this regular expression? Can't you write it in a simpler way?

Cheers, Edi.