[pcre-dev] PCRE allows quantified anchored regular expressio…

Hi,
     as seen in the screen output below, PCRE does not reject regular expressions
which are anchored as well as quantified.
e.g. (^a){2}

mladhe@linux45:~] pcretest
PCRE version 7.6 2008-01-28

  re> /(^a){2}/
data> aa
No match
data> a
No match
data> a\na
No match
data>

The given regular expression is not matching with anything. So why to accept it ?
It should be rejected by PCRE.

Thank you,
Mahendra Ladhe

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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865
           Summary: \b Does not work for non ascii characters in UTF-8
           Product: PCRE
           Version: N/A
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: bug
          Priority: medium
         Component: Code
        AssignedTo: ph10@???
        ReportedBy: mark@???
                CC: pcre-dev@???

\b Does not work in UTF-8 mode with characters that are encoded in more than
one byte: It does not find 'words' that begin with a non-ascii letter.

E.g: I try to use the following expression to find the words in a text:
(Pasted from C source)

"\\b([\\p{N}\\p{L}]+)[^\\p{N}\\p{L}]*"

It does not find the German words meaning 'change' and 'about' in:

Änderung oder änderung. Über eine Menge Worte muß man schreiben.


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