pattern and infinite loop
no spam <[email protected]> Sun, 18 Jan 2009 23:09:47 -0500
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I'm using this pattern:
p5c.compile(".*?<td\\s+.+<span\\s+class=\"nametext\">"+
".+?<strong>(.+?)</strong></font>.+?Profile\\s+Views",
Perl5Compiler.SINGLELINE_MASK);
to try and pull genres out of myspace pages. However some pages like this
result in infinite loops:
http://www.myspace.com/pain
How can I prevent these loops?
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