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A surprising number of regex tools used in the wild employ a backtracking algorithm like this one. Some popular features such as lookaheada, lookbehinds, and ba
by ufo 7y ago
A surprising number of regex tools used in the wild employ a backtracking algorithm like this one. Some popular features such as lookaheada, lookbehinds, and backreferences can't always be matched using a finite automaton.