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I really want to know the regexp and corresponding input(s) which killed the internet now :) Was it just aaaaaaaaaaaah? https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.h
by grey-area 7y ago
I really want to know the regexp and corresponding input(s) which killed the internet now :) Was it just aaaaaaaaaaaah?
https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html https://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html
- almost_usual 7y agoI'm assuming it's something pretty embarrassing if it's not in the post mortem.
- hunter2_ 7y agoThe first sentence here is "This is a short placeholder blog and will be replaced with a full post-mortem...". I'd bet big money that they do include it.
- almost_usual 7y agoLook forward to the full post-mortem
- snarf21 7y agoIt reminds me of an old joke. I decided to solve a software problem with regular expressions and now I have two problems.
- gbrayut 7y agoProbably something mundane like ^[\s\u200c]+|[\s\u200c]+$ That's the one that took down Stack Overflow a few years ago https://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-july-20-2016 https://stackstatus.net/post/147710624694/outage-postmortem-...