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  3. September 2008

Re: regexec - chopping a large text string into chunks

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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