Overcoming regex memory limits?

[Skip Montanaro]

    yin> I've heard that it may be possible to match without using the (.*?)
    yin> construct and this may solve the problem.  Any suggestions short of
    yin> a rewriting the parsing routine would be appreciated.

If you can give us an example of a regular expression which blows up and an
example of the text you expect to feed it, perhaps someone can make some
suggestions.

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