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A comprehensive guide to the dangers of Regular Expressions in JavaScript (www.sonarsource.com)
submitted 1 year ago by philnash to c/programming
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[–] philnash 6 points 1 year ago

While this article is about JavaScript specifically, these issues certainly exist in other regex engines too.