From 6c0eb32d75fbc9530921ee32c2e9a4390de00d8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: zimoch <zimoch>
Date: Wed, 16 May 2012 14:23:43 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Print helpful message when matching string is too long

---
 src/RegexpConverter.cc | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/RegexpConverter.cc b/src/RegexpConverter.cc
index a1e017c..09bf972 100644
--- 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;