[pcre-dev] contradicting perl sematics

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Author: Bernie Redman
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Subject: [pcre-dev] contradicting perl sematics
Sorry to email directly but I am loathe to create a login account in order to file a bug report. Captchas would be appreciated, but I digress.The following code in perl would match:"qwe" =~ /w/However, the PCRE library, if constructing a regex from the string "w" reads it as "^w$" implicitly, whereas perl treats it as "^.*w.*$" implicitly.


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Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] how can i preform global match on string ?
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On Tue, 7 Oct 2008, Meir Yanovich wrote:

> im trying to read the manual but i can't find any whare how can i do
> global match in a string
> like the perl \g flag


You have to write the loop yourself. There is some sample code in the
pcredemo.c source file.

Philip

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