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I am getting a strange "Maximum stack depth reached: 3" when doing a String.replaceAll() with bigger Regex on a quite big string (40 lines of text). I am trying to remove any comments and literal strings out of Apex Class source code.

...
private static final Pattern COMMENTS_LITERALS_PATTERN = Pattern.compile('(/\\*([^*]|[\\r\\n]|(\\*+([^*/]|[\\r\\n])))*\\*+/)|(//.*)|\'.*\'');

String sourceCode = 'long text around 40';
String cleanedBody;

Matcher commentsLiteralsMatch = COMMENTS_LITERALS_PATTERN.matcher(original.Body);
if(commentsLiteralsMatch.find()) {
     cleanedBody = commentsLiteralsMatch.replaceAll('');     
}
...

But the small number 3 really looks to low for me to be any limit.

Do you have an explanation for this or did you experience similar behaviors?!

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    Can you post the regex? – tomlogic Feb 18 '13 at 21:50
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    Sounds pretty strange, would help to create a case with Salesforce Support about this. – Ralph Callaway Feb 18 '13 at 23:57
  • tomlogic Sure sorry that I forgot to post a code example yesterday. – Robert Sösemann Feb 19 '13 at 13:21
  • This is still unsolved. I am searching comments and string literals in multiple ApexClass bodies and removing them by doing a replaceall(...,''); I run into Stack depth limits there. – Robert Sösemann Feb 20 '13 at 12:32
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My guess is that you're reaching a limit on nested groups in your regular expression.

You could try splitting it into two separate match patterns:

'/\\*([^*]|[\\r\\n]|(\\*+([^*/]|[\\r\\n])))*\\*+/'
'(//.*)|\'.*\''

And making two passes on sourceCode.

As for matching C-style comments, check out this Stack Overflow question.

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  • Splitting the regex didn't work. Besides that it must be something different as in my code I have other regexps that have 10 and more groups. – Robert Sösemann Feb 19 '13 at 16:34
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    In the working regexps, are those groups nested three levels deep (((A))) or just lots of groups ((A)(B))(C)(D)((E)(F)) with less than three levels of nesting? – tomlogic Feb 19 '13 at 16:49
  • Oh now I understand. The 3 in the error message might come from 3 levels of groups?! You are right the others have a max grouping of 2. I try to rewrite the regexp with 3 levels. – Robert Sösemann Feb 19 '13 at 18:19

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