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Re: regex step counting

by Fletch (Bishop)
on Dec 03, 2019 at 13:56 UTC ( [id://11109593]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to regex step counting

Not an answer but you're treading well into "very hard problem" territory. See Cloudflare blames PCRE for outage and the post referenced here Cloudflare uses Regexp::Debugger in explaining the outage for a similar real world occurrence.

Update: dittos on the halting problem mention below; I almost said as much myself rather than just "very hard".

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