philnash@programming.dev to Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoA comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScriptwww.sonarsource.comexternal-linkmessage-square15fedilinkarrow-up1107arrow-down12cross-posted to: regex@programming.devjavascript@programming.dev
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minus-squaresebschlinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down4·1 year agoOk thanks for the clarification. I would argue, the gold standard of regex would be perlre or even re from python. I never heard one discouraging using them. Do you know sth I don’t?
minus-squareburntsushi@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·1 year agoBoth Perl and Python use backtracking regex engines and are thus susceptible to similar problems as discussed in the OP.
Ok thanks for the clarification.
I would argue, the gold standard of regex would be perlre or even re from python. I never heard one discouraging using them. Do you know sth I don’t?
Both Perl and Python use backtracking regex engines and are thus susceptible to similar problems as discussed in the OP.