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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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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