Why does Java regex engine throw StringIndexOutOfBoundsException on a + repetition?
I've written a regex pattern to find Fibonacci numbers (it doesn't matter why, I just did). It works wonderfully as expected (see on ideone.com): String FIBONACCI = "(?x) .{0,2} | (?: (?=(\\2?)) (?=(\\2\\3|^.)) (?=(\\1)) \\2)++ . "; for (int n = 0; n < 1000; n++) { String s = new String(new char[n]); if...