Stephen said:
What's the search expression? Chances are that's what's causing the problem. It's very easy to write a simple expression that (in any engine) takes a very long time to evaluate. perldoc perlre has some examples, IIRC.
Hi!
Search expression was something like:
{"[\d\s]+","","[\w\s]+","[\w\s@-_+]+"},
After an hour after I sent that email, I killed the process. I couldn't let it run anymore... was too frustrating.
I then wrote a quick ruby script and did it that way. It finished in seconds. TM has some serious issues with newlines... because it runs 100000x faster when the replacement statement has no "\n" characters and when the text you're running the regexp on is not one long line. Give it a try on your own test data.
Thank you for a message! I appreciate it for trying to help.
Melanie