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.*?;.*? will cause catastrophic backtracking. See this post on more details on the problem: http://www.regular-expressions.info/catastrophic.html backtracking.

To resolve the performance issues, remove .*?; and replace it with [^;]*;, that should be much faster.

.*?;.*? will cause catastrophic backtracking. See this post on more details on the problem: http://www.regular-expressions.info/catastrophic.html

To resolve the performance issues, remove .*?; and replace it with [^;]*;, that should be much faster.

.*?;.*? will cause catastrophic backtracking.

To resolve the performance issues, remove .*?; and replace it with [^;]*;, that should be much faster.

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jessehouwing
jessehouwing
  • 797
  • 6
  • 15

.*?;.*? will cause catastrophic backtracking. See this post on more details on the problem: http://www.regular-expressions.info/catastrophic.html

To resolve the performance issues, remove .*?; and replace it with [^;]*;, that should be much faster.