Abstract: A regular expression (regex) is said to be vulnerable to the regex denial of service (ReDoS) attack if the worst-case running time of a matching algorithm on the regex is super-linear in the ...

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Abstract: A Regular Expression, often abbreviated as Regex, are a sequence of characters that define a search pattern. An Non-deterministic Finite Automata (NFA) is a computational machine which can ...

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Quick: If you shout "regular expressions" in a crowd of Linux users, what happens? Answer: Everyone will tell you the right way to use them, and every answer will be different. Regular expressions -- ...