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Re: [sc-dev] Crashes in findRegexp or File

findRegExp is partially broken -- something wrong with its
garbage-collection handling (which would cause crashes). Nobody has
looked into it AFAIK.
hjh


On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 3:49 PM, jostM <sc3@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm having constant crashes with this code. I've narrowed it down to
> either happening after reading the file several times, or  using
> findRegexp (even with much simpler finds than here).
>
> I'm trying to write an automatic link fixer, but it fails because of
> these crashes.
>
> You may need to do this a few time in a row before it crashes the whol SCApp
>
>
>
> (
>    p="Help/GUI/GUI-Classes.html";
>    //path.postln;
>    f=File.new(p,"r");
>    q= f.readAllString;
>    f.close;
>
>    // this string finds links,
>    // and parses them into a specific kind of array.
>    r="<a href=[\"]([^\"]*)[\"]>[a-zA-Z0-9_< >\"/=\-]*</a>";
>    l=q.findRegexp(r);
>
> )


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