[Solved] StringRegExpReplace, pattern size limitation?

[MvGulik]

Is there a known StringRegExpReplace() pattern parameter size limitation?

I'm hitting a StringRegExpReplace() error when the pattern string size starts to exceeds ~30500 characters.

Could not find any reverence to this in autoit or pcre.pattern documentation's.

Edited March 5, 2010 by MvGulik

[Mat]

http://www.autoitscript.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=106942

[MvGulik]

The maximum length of a compiled pattern is 65539 (sic) bytes if PCRE is compiled with the default internal linkage size of 2.

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We also work in unicode, so 1 char = 2 bytes

~30500 * unicode comes in the neighbourhood of 65539. So I gues thats the reason.

Was missing the unicode doubler.

Thanks.

[James]

Why the heck would you need a RegEx that long anyway?

[MvGulik]

Just trying to pass a rather big keyword file trough a ReExp.

RE Pattern: '(?i)(?:' & $sWordList & ')\b'

And au3.keywords.udfs as keyword source: 50.000+ characters.

Edited December 29, 2009 by MvGulik