[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 24166] Regex: capture groups don't match on text longer than 49991 chars

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=24166





------- Comment #6 from barraclough at apple.com  2009-02-26 23:55 PDT -------
As a quick fix you may want to try rewriting (.)* as (?:.*(.))?

I think there is a good chance that this will be faster on most regex engines,
and also this may well work on shipping Safari.

(I'm afraid I don't have a 49991 character input string lying around to check).

G.


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