[RESOLVED] New Strategy for HUGE regexp match

[dalecosp]

This was a question about matching a regexp using a large quantifier:

$regexp2 = '%name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="[/a-zA-Z0-9+=]{1,100000}"%';

100,000 is too large (the regexp engine will only accept a quantifier of 65536 or less). The solution was simple, but eluded me until I'd posted here:

$regexp2 = '%name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="[/a-zA-Z0-9+=]{100,}"%';

In this case, since the expression closes with a quote and quotes aren't allowed in the expression itself, I don't have to care how large the string is.

[Derokorian]

See I would have simplified it even more:

$regexp2 = '%name="__VIEWSTATE" id="__VIEWSTATE" value="[^"]+"%';  

Which will match everything in the value field up until the first double quote it finds.