progs/catastrophic.js
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
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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)