Re: how to translate lua pattern "(.*)and(.*)" with lpeg re ?

[albertmcchan <albertmcchan@...>]

during testing, lpeg backtracking can only handle max string length of 199:
is this a lpeg bug ? only 199 chars limit ?

pat = re.compile "{g <- .g / &'and'} 'and' {.*}"
str = 'and*'

= pat:match( str:rep(3) )
and*and*           *

= pat:match( str:rep(50) )
backtrack stack overflow (current limit is 400)
stack traceback ...