Author: Philip Hazel
Date:
To: ND
CC: Pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] 'Hard' partial matching don't work with some
assertions
On Sat, 28 Aug 2010, ND wrote:
> Hi!
>
> PCRE 8.10
>
> Patterns: '\z', '$', '(?!\A)\b' successfully matches with partial 'hard'
> option against subject string '1'. I think this is wrong behaviour. I
> waits 'PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL' instead.
That behaviour agrees with the documentation:
A partial match occurs if the end of the subject string is reached
successfully, but there are not enough subject characters to complete
the match.
In your examples, there *are* enough subject characters to complete the
match (because it doesn't need any subject characters at all).
I'm afraid I don't see what you are wanting here. The pattern has
completely matched, after all.
Philip
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Philip Hazel
