Print helpful message when matching string is too long

2012-05-16 14:23:43 +00:00
parent 9ae5f1d583
commit 6c0eb32d75
1 changed files with 1 additions and 1 deletions
--- a/src/RegexpConverter.cc
+++ b/src/RegexpConverter.cc
@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ scanString(const StreamFormat& fmt, const char* input,
    len = ovector[subexpr*2+1] - ovector[subexpr*2];
    if (len >= maxlen) {
        if (!(fmt.flags & sign_flag)) {
-            debug("Matching string \"%s\" too long (%d>%d bytes)\n",
+            error("Regexp: Matching string \"%s\" too long (%d>%d bytes). You may want to try the + flag: \"%%+/.../\"\n",
                StreamBuffer(input+ovector[subexpr*2], len).expand()(),
                (int)len, (int)maxlen-1);
            return -1;