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On Fri, 23 Sep 2011, Father Chrysostomos via RT wrote: > > You will be please to hear that Jeff Friedl, who has only just > > discovered (*THEN) and friends - I guess he's been doing other stuff - > > agrees with your and Perl's interpretation. He even pointed out that > > adding a non-matching alternation would change the behaviour. I haven't > > had any responses from the mailing list I asked. So on a sample of one > > third party, it looks like my intuition is invalid. > > I wouldn’t say it’s invalid, as Perl’s documentation is a little > unclear. I hope I have clarified that with commit ac9d848. Thanks. No doubt that will eventually make it into a release and I'll see it. For your interest, two people on the pcre-dev list have now responded to the query, and they went for my interpretation. So at least I'm not alone, but I would of course prefer PCRE to be Perl-compatible. I'm still brooding about this. Regards, Philip -- Philip HazelThread Previous | Thread Next