progs/catastrophic.js
author Christian Urban <christian.urban@kcl.ac.uk>
Tue, 30 Jun 2020 01:31:14 +0100
changeset 730 18fee9d3b6a8
parent 701 681c36b2af27
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// 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)