| author | Christian Urban <christian.urban@kcl.ac.uk> | 
| Fri, 10 Apr 2020 16:30:52 +0100 | |
| changeset 720 | 6d5e88493bf3 | 
| 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)