14 Jan
2007
14 Jan
'07
2:16 p.m.
Kyle: the trick with these is to change the expression to make it as unambiguous as possible: the exception is thrown when the regex state machine visits too many states while trying to find a match and then gives it up as a lost cause rather than risking looking indefinitely.
In this case the first (.*|\\n*) is superfluous since . can match \n as well, so the machine can "thrash" if it encounters a lot of whitespace. Using (?!System)* fixed the problem and brought the execution time down enormously.
Spot on. I didn't think it could be that simple. Thanks! Kyle