author | Christian Urban <christian dot urban at kcl dot ac dot uk> |
Mon, 20 Jul 2020 16:46:30 +0100 | |
changeset 736 | d3e477fe6c66 |
parent 701 | 681c36b2af27 |
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)