Give regexp that crash

I want to make my Java regex class interesting, even exciting.
Not by the volume of the regex pattern string, but by its inherent malign logic, the regexp I want should crash, i.e. overflowing stack, causing memory shortage or causing anything horrible.
I have searched the forum but not found nifty example(s).
I expect some real genius could give it/them on this thread.
Thanks in advance.

The regexes in both of those bug reports demonstrate two common mistakes. The first, as you said, is that they employ alternation when they should be using something more efficient. In each of those cases, every alternative matched exactly one letter, which means they should have been using a simple character class instead. When you're searching for multi-character sequences, you should look for opportunities to minimize the scope of the alternation, but don't bend over backward; readability matters, too. However, if you can factor out a prefix, you probably should. For instance, if you were looking for "you", "your" or "yourself", the regex you(r(self)?)? would be much more efficient than you|your|yourself.
The other mistake shown in both reports is the misuse of quantifiers in combination with parentheses. In each case, there's a subexpression inside a set of parens that matches exactly one character, and a quantifier outside the parens. Never do that. Parenthesized groups, even the non-capturing variety, always increase the overhead cost of regex matching; to put parens around a single character probably increases the cost of matching each character by several times, and capturing groups are even more expensive. Either get rid of the parentheses or put the quantifier inside them.
I wouldn't advise regex newbies to be as specific as possible all the time because it's too easy to create a regex that misses some of the things you want to match. But they should definitely learn how be specific, and not rely on the old dot-star all the time. In fact, for the sake of learning, I recommend trying to write all your regexes first without using the dot metacharacter at all. But in the real world, it usually works well enough.
As an example, suppose you're trying to extract certain parts of a bunch of reasonably well-formed web pages. How would you extract the HEAD section of each one? The BODY section? Finally, how would you extract all the SCRIPT sections from each page? The HEAD section can be fairly large, but it usually makes up a small portion of the whole page. If you used (?is)<HEAD>.*</HEAD>, the dot-star would consume the whole page, then backtrack one character at a time through the whole BODY section--a ridiculous waste. It makes much more sense to use a reluctant quantifier: (?is)<HEAD>.*?</HEAD>. It's not the most efficient way to do it, but it's probably good enough.
The BODY section is just the opposite. This time, you want the dot-star to gobble everything up, because you know it will only have to backtrack a few characters from the end of the page, so (?is)<BODY\b.*</BODY> is exactly what you want.
SCRIPT elements are a whole different story. They can be completely empty or thousands of characters long, and there can be a lot of them. This time, it's worth the effort to disable backtracking completely, and the inherent inefficiency of reluctant quantifiers will be too expensive. This is when you inject the nitrous oxide: (?is)<SCRIPT\b(?:[^<]++|<(?!/SCRIPT>))*+</SCRIPT>

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name":"astrogold","bug_type":"109","os_version":"iPhone OS 7.1.2 (11D257)","bundleID":"com.esotech.astrogold","version":"4.2.4 (4.2)","app_name":"astrogold"}
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CrashReporter Key:   cfa389285f4559a21d797bfeec6a78c584e798d6
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Identifier:          com.esotech.astrogold
Version:             4.2.4 (4.2)
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Date/Time:           2014-08-31 13:15:13.616 +0800
OS Version:          iOS 7.1.2 (11D257)
Report Version:      104
Exception Type: EXC_CRASH (SIGABRT)
Exception Codes: 0x0000000000000000, 0x0000000000000000
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2   libsystem_c.dylib              0x39955ff4 0x3990c000 + 303092
3   libsystem_malloc.dylib         0x399ccd20 0x399ca000 + 11552
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5   libobjc.A.dylib                0x393ffb66 0x393ed000 + 76646
6   astrogold                      0x001be574 0xe2000 + 902516
7   astrogold                      0x001be774 0xe2000 + 903028
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23 CoreFoundation                 0x2eb89724 0x2eb81000 + 34596
24 CoreFoundation                 0x2eb89506 0x2eb81000 + 34054
25 GraphicsServices               0x33af86ce 0x33aef000 + 38606
26 UIKit                          0x314ea86c 0x3147c000 + 452716
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28 libdyld.dylib                  0x398eeab4 0x398ed000 + 6836
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2   libsystem_pthread.dylib        0x39a0cd9c 0x39a0a000 + 11676
3   JavaScriptCore                 0x2fd56cb2 0x2fba6000 + 1772722
4   JavaScriptCore                 0x2fd56d0c 0x2fba6000 + 1772812
5   JavaScriptCore                 0x2fbb5970 0x2fba6000 + 63856
6   libsystem_pthread.dylib        0x39a0c956 0x39a0a000 + 10582
7   libsystem_pthread.dylib        0x39a0c8c6 0x39a0a000 + 10438
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Thread 0 crashed with ARM Thread State (32-bit):
    r0: 0x00000000    r1: 0x00000000      r2: 0x00000000      r3: 0x27d1f553
    r4: 0x00000006    r5: 0x3b90118c      r6: 0x0000000b      r7: 0x27d1f5bc
    r8: 0x0000000b    r9: 0x00000001     r10: 0x00626000     r11: 0x00000000
    ip: 0x00000148    sp: 0x27d1f5b0      lr: 0x39a0d7b7      pc: 0x399a51f0
cpsr: 0x00000010
Zane B Stein
("os_version":"iPhone OS 7.1.2 (11D257)","version":"104","bug_type":"198"}
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CrashReporter Key:   cfa389285f4559a21d797bfeec6a78c584e798d6
Hardware Model:      iPhone5,4
OS Version:          iPhone OS 7.1.2 (11D257)
Kernel Version:      Darwin Kernel Version 14.0.0: Thu May 15 23:10:37 PDT 2014; root:xnu-2423.10.71~1/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8950X
Date:                2014-09-02 14:24:12 +0800
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Active pages:                            17896
Inactive pages:                          9268
Speculative pages:                       11
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Purgeable pages:                         261
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File-backed pages:                       26187
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Thank you for your reply.
>You can double-click the home button and then swipe upwards on the thumbnail of the app to force it closed.
Did that
>After that, power the phone off and back on again, test.
Did that
>If still a problem, force close the app again and then reset the phone, holding the sleep/wake and home buttons together until you see the Apple logo and then release. The phone will reboot, test.
Did that
>If still a problem, then connect the device to iTunes and restore from backup.
Did that
>If that does not work, it is possible there is something corrupt in the backup. The final step is restore as new, not from a backup.
This is the only thing I had not done before I posted my initial request for help. I will work on that....it's a last resort I was hoping not to do, but it sounds like I've already done everything else.
Thank you.

HT3275 How do I find/restore files from items in secure home folder? How do I find/restore files that crashed when in finder of secure (File Vault) home folder?

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Thanks. I had pretty much figured out from other posts that I had better turn off File Vault for my home folder and use a disk utility sparse bundel for little information I wanted to secure. The information about File Vault 2 in Lion was new and useful though.

TS1389 im trying to sync my ipod and everything went well but when i tried to get all my songs back off my laptop it wont let me it tells me to authorize my computer but then it doesnt give me that option im in despret need of help someone please help.

okay so my cousin downloaded a bunch of songs to my ipod and i couldnt listen to them so i decided to sync my ipod, i thought everything went well but i guess i was wrong because i saved all my apps to my laptop and my music also. but now i cant get any of it back on my ipod it says i have to authorize my computer so when i go to itunes and attempt to authorize my laptop it doesnt give me that option ive tried everything someone please help thanks...

Open itunes, Click the word Store at the top of your computer screen
On a windows computer, if it does not show, then click Alt-S

Problem With Remote, and strange error that crashes diagnos

Hey guys. I'm a n00b to the forum, but I think this is my best hope. I'm having this problem getting my remote to work, and I'm getting an error that appears to common, but I haven't been able to find a solid solution. I can't do a reload, since I have savegame files that can't be backed up, and a large home-video backup on this computer. I don't have enough DVDs to back it all up onto. The one thing that I REALLY want to work is the Remote. For some reason it won't work. I know it isn't the battery, because it worked fine before I reloaded this system last (September?), and I have tried a new battery in it. I've also tried turning up the sensitivity settings. I've noticed the red light occaisionally flickers on the Creative Hub thing when I'm not even touching the remote. When I try to run the diagnostic program I get an error (The instruction at "0x77f536f7" memory "0x00000000". The memory could not be "written". Click OK to Terminate the program, or Click CANCEL to Debug the program) I've tried clicking CANCEL on this, and that does nothing but pop up the error message (The instruction at "0x084c42f" referenced memory at 0x00000008". The memory could not be "read". Click OK to terminate the program). Clicking OK on the previous window also gives you that error. Clicking OK on the error just mentioned closes down the diag program. I've tried using the Restore Defaults option, and that didn't fix the problem either. I've also run DocMemory on my computer, and according to it, my RAM is fine. As far as product updates go, I've downloaded them all and installed them all too. Everything works but the remote... and I think it may be partially b/c of the supposed RAM-based error. I haven't tried running it in safe mode yet... I'll try that and get back to you ASAP.
--> Creative Soundblaster Audigy 2 ZS Plat. Pro.
--> 52mb OCZ DDR400.
--> AMD 64 3000+
--> 20gig WD HDD
--> 28mb PowerColour ATi Radeon 9200se
--> Asus WiFi B
--> XP Home
I'm a huge computer junkie so feel free to go technical on me. Hopefully somebody can fix my problem.
Thanks,
-Richard-
btw: I often see these same errors when shutting down my computer.
[EDIT: 2/26/2004 @ 0:43PM]
Okay, I just tried running the diag in safemode... still came up with the errors.
-Richard-Message Edited by wardrich on 2-27-2004 03:40 AM

Wardrich,
There are a couple of things I would suggest. First off I would make sure that the remote control is enabled in Mediasource, it is not by default. To do this go into Mediasource and go to Tools/Settings. In here there is a remote control tab. Make sure the remote and the OSD is enabled in here. If it is then we need to look at doing a cleansweep and reinstall of the card. Here are the instructions on cleansweeping the card:
http://forums.americas.creative.com/...&message.id=72
Jeremy

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I'm new to Mac. I have an iPhone and a Mac Mini. My original iTunes was on a Windows computer that crashed. So, all of my iTunes Music and Movies are gone. How do I get the movies and music from my iPhone to the new Mac Mini?

If you still have the crashed Win computer, you may be able to recover your music and movies from the hard drive. If you have a friend with a hard drive USB connection kit and a PC, they should be able to help. Otherwise, check locally for computer services that might do that for you (I think Best Buy Geek Squad may be able to help). If the drive itself is in good shape, it shouldn't be too expensive.

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You can try and find 3rd party applications that might help you. I'm sure you'll pay, however.
Let this be a very important lesson learned.
Best.

I have a project that crashed on me when I was about to finish it. When I try to reopen Final Cut Pro it wouldn't open until I took the project out of the Final Cut Project folder. Can somebody tell me if this is a problem that has a solution? I cannot

I have a project that crashed on me when I was about to finish it. When I try to reopen Final Cut Pro it wouldn't open until I took the project out of the Final Cut Project folder. Can somebody tell me if this is a problem that has a solution? I cannot go back to the project at all.

If you are using 10.0.3 or above Apple added a backups folder that for a little extra protection in cases like this. If you quite FCPX go to your Final Cut Pro Projects folder. Find the folder that has the project in question. If it has a backups folder there should be a file with a date stamp and .fcpproject extention, that is your back-up. Just move the back-up from that folder one folder up to the place where you deleted CurrentVersion.fcpproject from. When I have had to do this I haven't renamed the backup but some people to recomend that you rename it to CurrentVersion.fcpproject and it seems to work both ways. Ofcourse it wont work if there is already a CurrenVersion file there you will need to delete that one first.
If you don't have the backups folder or there is nothing in it I am not sure if there is anything that can be done.

How do I deactivate a license from a computer that crashed and can no longer be accessed?

How do I deactivate a license from a computer that crashed and can no longer be accessed? I cannot use the software on my new computer because of too many users.

Will you please provide a specific telephone number or chat link? I seem to be in a loop, that gets me back to the same place:
I click on your above link ...
Then Deactivation and sign-out problems
Then Error "Activation limit reached" or "Sign in failed" | Adobe products
Then Can't access your previous computer?
Then "Don't have access to the previous computer on which you installed the application?Contact us. Be sure to have any purchase-related information ready."
"Contact Us" takes me back to "Need help?", which eventually directs me to this forum in the first place.
Thanks you.

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I have a nano with 500 songs that was synced with my old computer that crashed. Bought a new computer, now my music is not in my iTunes library. I did the share thing but it didn't work.

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HT201272 itunes was on mac book that crashed. Did all steps to download purchased music onto new computer. Only part of my purchased music was transferred to new computer. Can't recover remainder of purchased music.

itunes was on mac book that crashed. Trying to move music and podcasts to wifes windows 7 pc. Followed all steps for importing purchased items. Only a portion of purchased music was transferred to new computer. What to do???

JustMeAndYou,
For what it's worth ...
Apple's policy is clear: iTS purchases can be downloaded only once. It is your responsibility to make back-ups . (For most people, this will involve either CD's/DVD's or an external drive .)
That being said, at their discretion they have made one-time exceptions to this policy. You can ask for an exception by submitting the form on this page:
http://www.apple.com/support/itunes/store/browser/
Good Luck! But whatever the response from Apple, remember:
Your music is valuable - please back it up!

Have a mac book pro that crashed. ran disk utility to repair. comp booted and ran for short time. then crashed. ran repair again. disk utility said it could not repair files and i needed to format hard drive and start again. now nothing works

have a mac book pro that crashed. ran disk utility to repair. comp booted and ran for short time. then crashed. ran repair again. disk utility said it could not repair disk and needed to format and start again.
comp said it could not unmount disk and now when comp trys to boot all i get is a question mark on the screen. help

Erase and Install
1. Boot from your Snow Leopard Installer Disc. After the installer loads select your language and click on the Continue button. When the menu bar appears select Disk Utility from the Utilities menu.
2. After DU loads select your hard drive (this is the entry with the mfgr.'s ID and size) from the left side list. Note the SMART status of the drive in DU's status area. If it does not say "Verified" then the drive is failing or has failed and will need replacing. SMART info will not be reported on external drives. Otherwise, click on the Partition tab in the DU main window.
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