Regular expressions crash the program

[notuo]

Hi Karlis.

I just tried a search with regexp and rapidphp (Version 7.1.0.6) went down, vanished. I am sure the regexp was wrong because I am learning this technique.

Here is what I tried first:

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<i>.*</i>

and found extrange things Stoped at the first <i> but ended at the last </i> instead of the correspoding one. I repeat, I am new in this.

Then I tried:

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<i>(.)*</i>

and got a beep and rapid crashed.

Also and continuing with this subjet. What are the sw you have for this regexp. I like to have more examples of the syntax and commands. The help part is short in this.

Thanks for your help and maybe you can fix this.

BTW, here is an excerp of the file I am testing with.

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        <p>La Conferencia General de la OrganizaciĆ³n de las Naciones Unidas para la EducaciĆ³n, la
        Ciencia y la Cultura, denominada en adelante la UNESCO , en su 32ĀŖ reuniĆ³n, celebrada en
        ParĆ­s del veintinueve de septiembre al diecisiete de octubre de 2003,</p>

        <p><i>RefiriƩndose</i> a los instrumentos internacionales existentes en materia de derechos
        humanos, en particular a la DeclaraciĆ³n Universal de Derechos Humanos de 1948, al Pacto
        Internacional de Derechos EconĆ³micos, Sociales y Culturales de 1966 y al Pacto
        Internacional de Derechos Civiles y PolĆ­ticos de 1966,</p>

        <p><i>Considerando</i> la importancia que reviste el patrimonio cultural inmaterial, crisol
        de la diversidad cultural y garante del desarrollo sostenible, como se destaca en la
        RecomendaciĆ³n de la UNESCO sobre la salvaguardia de la cultura tradicional y popular de
        1989, asĆ­ como en la DeclaraciĆ³n Universal de la UNESCO sobre la Diversidad Cultural de
        2001 y en la DeclaraciĆ³n de Estambul de 2002, aprobada por la Tercera Mesa Redonda de
        Ministros de Cultura,</p>

        <p><i>Considerando</i> la profunda interdependencia que existe entre el patrimonio cultural
        inmaterial y el patrimonio material cultural y natural,</p>

EDIT>>>

Just tried this regexp in Ultraedit (unix style) and worked fine

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Regards

[Karlis]

.* means "everything", so it will fit any text, if you need <i>{something}</i>, you need to have your expresssion written so that it is anything except <

so it would be <i>[^>]*</i> which means any string, but stop at <

Now I do agree that the software must be more tolerant for incorrect expressions and should not crash, so your report will be taken into account.

[Karlis]

Very strange, I did as you told and the program did not crash... maybe it was some other expression that caused the crash?

P.S. Regexprs are almost PERL style.

[notuo]

Thanks for your answer. I did the same with this piece of code and didn't crashed. The actual file is 840 lines.You can grab it here
http://www.ims.com.mx/karlis.rar

Crashes with this file and this exp:

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<i>(.)*</i>

Regards

[Karlis]

Thanks, this will help definately!