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1. Java regex dies on stack overflow: need a better version    stackoverflow.com

I'm working on a JMD (Java MarkDown) (a Java port of MarkDownSharp) but I'm having an issue with one regex in particular. For the file

2. My regex is causing a stack overflow in Java; what am I missing?    stackoverflow.com

I am attempting to use a regular expression with Scanner to match a string from a file. The regex works with all of the contents of the file except for this ...

3. Stack overflow for java regex    stackoverflow.com

I am getting stackoverflow for validating a csv for large string field. Regex:

(?![^\",][^,]*\")(\"(\"\"|[^\"])*\"|[^\",]*),[0-9]*

4. java regular expression giving stack overflow ?    coderanch.com

I'm having a very difficult time trying to get this regular expression in java to work. I just don't understand why it is not working. It appears to work in a perl script.The idea is to check if this target is landing in html and is breaking out of a double quote in an html tag. example: injecting this in a ...

5. java regular expression giving stack overflow ?    coderanch.com

6. Regexp Stack Overflow    forums.oracle.com

First, while regex can probably do this (within certain limitations), I don't think it's a great tool for the job. As for what's happening, as a rough guess, you've got lots of potential matches and the regex has to do lots of backtracking, and that's killing your stack. Also... x y z