Maximum length of string preg_match_all can match and acquire?

Question

I\'m trying to parse some web pages with preg_match_all() and some of them are quite large as several MBs in size. And one of the regular expressions matches some text strin

Answer 1

Set the ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', '1048576'); to whatever you want in your script or on your php.ini file for global use. (example is 1mb)

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