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sebsch@discuss.tchncs.de 1 year agoOk thanks for the clarification.
I would argue, the gold standard of regex would be perlre or even re from python. I never heard one discouraging using them. Do you know sth I don’t?
burntsushi@programming.dev 1 year ago
Both Perl and Python use backtracking regex engines and are thus susceptible to similar problems as discussed in the OP.