timeout for a single line parse

[lidaobing]

consider following code, it will timeout, we should change [a-zA-Z0-9_\.()]*| to [a-zA-Z0-9_\.()]*?|

a =  /
        (\b[snN]?__)               # Matches the function call grouping the method used (__, n__, N__, etc)
          \(                         # and a parenthesis to start the arguments to the function.
            (('.*?'|                 # Then a token inside the argument list, like a single quoted string
              ".*?"|                 # ...Double quote string
              [a-zA-Z0-9_\.()]*|    # ...a number, variable name, or called function lik: 33, foo, Foo.bar()
              [ ]|                   # ...a white space
              ,)                     # ...or a comma, which separates all of the above.
            *)                       # There may be many arguments to the same function call.
          \)                         # function call closing parenthesis
      /x
b = "category_name = __('No Category') if category_name == null"
b.scan(a)

[tboerger]

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