Abstract: A regular expression (regex) is said to be vulnerable to the regex denial of service (ReDoS) attack if the worst-case running time of a matching algorithm on the regex is super-linear in the ...

What is regex: A sequence of characters defining a search pattern, used for matching, replacing, or validating text across programming languages and tools. Why it matters: Regex simplifies complex ...

Abstract: A large class of entity extraction tasks from text that is either semistructured or fully unstructured may be addressed by regular expressions, because in many practical cases the relevant ...