What is the complexity of regular expression?

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The answer depends on what exactly you mean by “regular expressions.” Classic regexes can be compiled into Deterministic Finite Automata that can match a string of length N in O(N) time. Certain extensions to the regex language change that for the worse.

You may find the following document of interest: Regular Expression Matching Can Be Simple And Fast.

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