filtering out "bad" regular expressions from user input

Darrell Gallion darrell at dorb.com
Fri Sep 29 19:48:27 EDT 2000


From: "Skip Montanaro"
> I'm looking for a better approach to filtering out bad regular
expressions.

Don't laugh.

Change the regex engine to accept limits on time and space. This doesn't
seem like a hugely complicated change.

--Darrell





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