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Subject: Re: [boost] boost regex recursive quesion
From: John Maddock (jz.maddock_at_[hidden])
Date: 2015-03-24 05:02:17


> Does it means that all of recursive calls should be avoid in regular expression ?
No, most things work - and are rather well tested actually. The bug
relates to recursions with bounded repeats, so:

(?N)? or (?N){x,y}

> If it is a bug , this is a serious problem , why boost not make a caveat for it in document ?

Because you only discovered the bug yesterday ;)

John.


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