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- Subject: Re: Bug in pattern matching
- From: Gabriel Z M Ramos <gabriel@...>
- Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 21:57:59 -0200
Try "^.*b".
Well, I guess I simplified the example. Consider this search:
("a"):rep(100000):find("a(.*)b")
It just looks odd that it can take over a minute to look for such a
pattern in a 100 KB file if there's no match, whereas it will be
"instantaneous" if there is one:
(("a"):rep(100000).."b"):find("a(.*)b")
