Auteur: Philip Hazel Date: À: 760 CC: pcre-dev Sujet: Re: [pcre-dev] [Bug 760] New: Named patterns with same index
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On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Stan Vassilev wrote:
> This bug is caused by the inability of PCRE to differentiate and/or report
> named subpatterns that share numerican index, through its current interface.
This is a classic case of adding a feature (switch group) without
realizing the effect it would have on other features (names).
> I'd suggest a flag is maintained internally or additional information / calls
> are introduced to handle this special case for named subpatterns in a switch
> group, so that implementers can report the correct name and fix this bug.
I will think about this - but as PCRE 7.8 is only just out, it will not
happen immediately. Incidentally, do you know what Perl 5.10 does in
this situation? (I don't yet have Perl 5.10).
