Re: [pcre-dev] please, advice me PCRE discussion forums or …

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Andrew Ho wrote:

> Another e-mail to webmaster@???. (I'm forwarding them to the list
> as I get them, so you have the idea that these are not very frequent.)

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> Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2007 01:09:18 +0200
> From: George Zhuravlev <gera@???>
> To: webmaster@???
> Subject: please, advice me PCRE discussion forums or groups
>
> Hello webmaster,
>
> I have a question in PCRE, but I don't know where can it be asked.
> Can you help me?
>
> If there is a pattern like this
> "\s(\w(\d.){3})\s"
> and a subject like this
> "asd a1.2.3. asd"
> is there any possibility to iterate
> through all matches of group "(\d.)"?
> I mean, I want to know, that group "(\d.)"
> first matches "1.", then "2." and the last was "3.".
> How can it be done in PCRE library?

It cannot. The iteration must be done in the program that calls PCRE.

Philip

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Philip Hazel, University of Cambridge Computing Service.