| author | Christian Urban <christian dot urban at kcl dot ac dot uk> |
| Fri, 24 Jul 2020 12:58:19 +0100 | |
| changeset 738 | 03f46065ef04 |
| parent 701 | 81377a3eb717 |
| permissions | -rw-r--r-- |
// A case of catastrophic backtracking in JavaScript/Node.js // // regex: (a*)*b // strings: aa... // // call with: // // $> node catastrophic.js 20 // // call with timing as: // // $> time node catastrophic.js 25 const args = process.argv[2] var str = 'a'.repeat(args); console.log(str) var re = /^((a)*)*b$/; var res = re.test(str); console.log(res)