Re: regexec - chopping a large text string into chunks

Here are the results:
[[Begin]]
Compiled pattern:(\S\S{40,}|.{1,40})(\s+|$)
Thisisalineoftext111111.T2hisi2sal2soa2lin2ewilleventuallyrunoveratsstringislongerthannormal.Somwersomemoretext

overatsomepointsimplestri.Thisisthelastsentenceintheparagraph.
[[End]]

And here is the modified Java program:
http://code.midrange.com/3ffee41fa8.html

Aaron Bartell
http://mowyourlawn.com


On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 8:40 AM, Adam Glauser <adamglauser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

Aaron wrote:
>> pattern = '(\S\S{40,}|.{1,40})(\s+|$)' + x'00'
>> I should also note that this same regular expression has been
>> declared to work from the Java environment.

I wrote:
> I'm a bit confused about the '\S\S{40,} part. I think that if the
> search string contained 41 or more consecutive non-whitespace
> characters, that would be what was matched.

I know it's a crazy corner case, but what happens in the Java program if
the input is one long "word" with more than 40 characters?
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