9 Sep
2002
9 Sep
'02
12:47 p.m.
Hello, Edward! You wrote on Mon, 9 Sep 2002 07:54:16 -0400: ED> The "(.*)*" is strange ( zero or more of any character, except newline ED> in the case above, repeated zero or more times ) but is shouldn't ED> cause an infinite loop if that is what it is acrually doing. If it ED> does, I think it needs to be fixed in a future release. It does not cause an infinite loop. It just takes 2^N time to process (where N is string length), so on a long strings (not very long, 20-50 chars) it tooks approximately infinity :-) With best regards, Yaroslav Govorunov, E-mail: slov@rsdn.ru http://www.rsdn.ru http://www.isapirewrite.com