Archived:Compiling some regular expressions is slow using Open C/C++ on S60 3rd Edition devices (Known Issue)

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Compiling certain regular expressions using the regcomp function from regex.h is slow on S60 3rd Edition.

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Compatibility

Platform(s): S60 3rd Edition
S60 3rd Edition, FP1 and FP2

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Created: User:Technical writer 1 (07 Aug 2008)

Last edited: hamishwillee (21 Jun 2012)

How to reproduce

regex_t preg;
char* str = "192.168.1.123";
char* pattern = "([0-9]{1,3})\\.([0-9]{1,3})\\.([0-9]{1,3})\\.([0-9]{1,3})";
 
int rc;
size_t nmatch = 5;
regmatch_t pmatch[5];
 
//the next line will take 30-60 seconds to evaluate 
if (0 != (rc = regcomp(&preg, pattern, REG_EXTENDED ))) 
{
printf("Regular expression compiling failed");
int c = getchar();
return false;
}

Solution

This issue will be fixed in future releases of the Open C/C++ plug-in.