This wasn't a big refactor to be honest. It was just a recursion which ChatGPT suggested to be replaced with an iterative approach. This is why I've asked the q

This wasn't a big refactor to be honest. It was just a recursion which ChatGPT suggested to be replaced with an iterative approach. This is why I've asked the question, as maybe I'm not setting the right context. I've provided regexes that were overflowing, etc.