regexp too big

[Graziella]

Hi,

I get an error message at a certain point in my code because evidently the regex is too large.
How can I know what the size of a regex is so that I can skip processing it ?

Thank you,

Grazia

 

[tchatzi]

why dont you try to make it smaller?
or divide it in smaller parts?

 

[ishnid]

What's the error message?

 

[Graziella]

regexp is too big

 

[tchatzi]

can you show us your regex and tell us what you want to do?

 

[Graziella]

I solved the problem:
The regex became large because in my code I had

foreach $item (@array) {
#.....
#......
if (certain condition){
quotemeta ($item);
}
#........
}

So, it ended up being "quotemeta"-ed in a loop and I had to undef it at a certain point.

Grazia