[pcre-dev] [Bug 551] Continuous search support

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Author: Philip Hazel
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 551] Continuous search support
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=551

Philip Hazel <ph10@???> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID





--- Comment #2 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2007-08-07 11:29:49 ---
No, it is not possible for pcre_exec(). The way Perl matching works requires
the entire subject to be available all the time, for backtracking. You can,
however, do something close to what you want by using the pcre_dfa_exec()
matching function.


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