progs/catastrophic.js
author Christian Urban <christian.urban@kcl.ac.uk>
Wed, 06 May 2020 15:37:31 +0100
changeset 722 7c09b7eadc6b
parent 701 81377a3eb717
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updated




// 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)