Fri 13 Jul 2012 03:39:03 PM UTC, original submission:
This causes grep to dump:
klr@vwglnx02:~> ( echo 'if ( GetProfileStr( "GLOBAL", "HW", ins, iVar->hw,
sizeof( iVar->hw ) - 1,'; echo ' pcx->iniFile )) x=2; /* return
value not used */' ) | grep -P
'(?s)if\s[(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()](?#innerpart)[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)]\s((?#a_comment)\s[/][]([^]|[][^/])[][/]\s);'
Aborted (core dumped)
remove these three chars "x=2" and it works:
klr@vwglnx02:~> ( echo 'if ( GetProfileStr( "GLOBAL", "HW", ins, iVar->hw,
sizeof( iVar->hw ) - 1,'; echo ' pcx->iniFile )) ; /* return
value not used */' ) | grep -P
'(?s)if\s[(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()](?#innerpart)[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()][)]\s((?#a_comment)\s[/][]([^]|[][^/])[][/]\s);'
if ( GetProfileStr( "GLOBAL", "HW", ins, iVar->hw, sizeof( iVar->hw ) - 1,
pcx->iniFile )) ; /* return value not used */
klr@vwglnx02:~> grep --version
grep (GNU grep) 2.5.1
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Explanation of the regex:
The regex is a straight forward aproach to check for balanced parantheses in
C-code and then to check whether there is an if-statement or not (empty
if-statement).
It is necessary to code such a complex regex like this as regex normally cannot
be used to deal with balanced parantheses.
It even happens here:
klr@vwglnx02:~> ( echo 'if ( GetProfileStr( "GLOBAL", "HW", ins, iVar->hw,
sizeof( iVar->hw ) - 1,'; echo ' pcx->iniFile )) x=2; /* return
value not used */' ) | grep -P
'(?s)if\s[(][^()]([^()][(][^()]([^()][(][^()](?#innerpart)[^()][)][^()])[^()][)][^()])[^()]*[)];'
Aborted (core dumped)
Robert Klima, Dev. Manager, UC4 Software Inc.
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