Re: [ jEdit-users ] jEdit Memory Issue with RegEx Find & Replace

[Hedzer v. D. <he...@ho...>]

My guess is that the . is not escaped and so means 'every character'. 
This might even get worse if it allows multiline matches:-)

Regards, Hedzer

Joshua Miller wrote:

>I'm trying to perform the following Find and Replace over appx. 200 lines of code:
>
>Find:
>value=\"checked\" #([a-zA-Z_.]*)#
>
>Replace With:
>value="YES" <cfif $1 EQ "YES">checked</cfif>
>
>If I perform the operation on a single instance it works, but it takes several seconds to run. 
>If I perform the action on all 200 lines, jEdit sucks up over 160MB of Ram before freezing.
>
>Any ideas?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Joshua Miller
>jo...@jo...
>
>
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