Infinite loop

[davidnduffy]

Creating a call like this will not return (at least not in the several minutes I tried waiting for it):

RegSeed regExGen = new RegSeed("(prefix://([0-9a-f]{8}-([0-9a-f]{4}-){3}[0-9a-f]{12}).*$)");
string result = regExGen.Generate();

Taking the .*$ off the end of the pattern makes it run but then not generate any random data after the prefix://GUID portion (obviously).

I can constrain the number of characters generated manually by inserting something like {5} or {1, 50} or {,50} in place of the * but the result will include the $ character and not pass a regex test of the pattern against the result.

[davidnduffy]

I believe that because the pattern says .* which is greedy the generator just never stops generating characters and you can watch memory increase as the string builder keeps doubling.
While it is logical to treat .* as generate forever that isn't practical and should probably be replaced with a random number of characters within a reasonable or configurable limit.