Stackoverflow error

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I have to parse the following strings 

-DATA datavalue
+DATA datavalue

I am using the following regular expression
^{?:\+\\-)DATA\s*(.*)$

This gives stack overflow if the string is more than 3.6k

Do you have any recommendations to resolve this issue.


Sujata
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