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authorandybons@chromium.org <andybons@chromium.org@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98>2010-10-06 15:19:37 +0000
committerandybons@chromium.org <andybons@chromium.org@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98>2010-10-06 15:19:37 +0000
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fixes issue 52839 (MatchPattern timeout)
Fixes issue 52839 by converting consecutive wildcards (******) into one wildcard (*) in MatchPattern. BUG=52839 TEST=MatchPattern Original patch from issue 3608005 (Jon Stritar) Review URL: http://codereview.chromium.org/3551016 git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@61644 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98
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diff --git a/base/string_util.h b/base/string_util.h
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--- a/base/string_util.h
+++ b/base/string_util.h
@@ -558,6 +558,7 @@ bool ElideString(const std::wstring& input, int max_len, std::wstring* output);
// string can contain wildcards like * and ?
// The backslash character (\) is an escape character for * and ?
// We limit the patterns to having a max of 16 * or ? characters.
+// ? matches 0 or 1 character, while * matches 0 or more characters.
bool MatchPattern(const base::StringPiece& string,
const base::StringPiece& pattern);
bool MatchPattern(const string16& string, const string16& pattern);