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--- a/ChengsongTanPhdThesis/Chapters/RelatedWork.tex	Mon Dec 05 17:39:10 2022 +0000
+++ b/ChengsongTanPhdThesis/Chapters/RelatedWork.tex	Thu Dec 08 00:19:56 2022 +0000
@@ -120,11 +120,16 @@
 causes the transitivity of their ordering to not go through.
 
 
-\subsection{Static Analysis of Evil Regex Patterns} 
-When a regular expression does not behave as intended,
-people usually try to rewrite the regex to some equivalent form
+When a regular expression engine does not behave as intended (for example,
+getting excruciatingly slow on 
+a relatively simple regex pattern $(a^*)^*b$
+and a string $a\ldots a$ that is obviously
+not part of that regex)
+programmers usually try to rewrite the regex to some equivalent form.
+
 or they try to avoid the possibly problematic patterns completely,
 for which many false positives exist\parencite{Davis18}.
+\subsection{Static Analysis of Evil Regex Patterns} 
 Animated tools to "debug" regular expressions such as
  \parencite{regexploit2021} \parencite{regex101} are also popular.
 We are also aware of static analysis work on regular expressions that




