[pcre-dev] [Bug 891] Support [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] patterns

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Author: Philip Hazel
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 891] Support [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] patterns
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=891




--- Comment #4 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2009-09-24 10:24:13 ---
On Wed, 23 Sep 2009, Alan Lehotsky wrote:

> I had never heard of the syntax either (and agree that it's not really
> needed for completeness). But one of my users ran across this.
> If I get some free time, I'll try and implement it and contribute the
> code. I did find a citation (below) to prior implementation.


If it really is just those magic strings, which are invalid in Perl,
implementation would be easy, but tedious, and indeed it is horribly,
horribly ugly.

Philip


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